[Marshall !Kung Expedition II]
name: label: Collection Collaborator
content: McElwee, Ross
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Blitz, Daniel
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Bishop, John Melville
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Baker, Peter
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Ritchie, Claire
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Young, Robert
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Terry, John
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Galvin, Frank
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Bestall, Clifford
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Gardner, Robert
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994
label: Collection Creator
content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Marshall, Lorna
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content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection
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content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 1: Unedited Film and Video Projects
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (silent, color reversal; 21,000 feet (9.75 hours), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1951
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1983.11, File 83.11.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
otherfindaid: label: 83.11.2 shot log pdf
content: NMNH-83_11_2_shotlogs.pdf
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record shot during an expedition to the Nyae-Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert
in Namibia, sponsored by the Harvard Peabody Museum. Footage documents: construction
of a skerm (shelter) and setting-up of a household, preparation and consumption of a
springbok, hunting and preparation of a small snake, and digging and eating of roots.
Technologies illustrated include: fire building, hide preparation, subterranean storage of
water in ostrich egg shells, setting of a trap, and the entire bow-and-arrow manufacturing
process. Depicted are the arrangements of skerms within the werft (encampment).
Representations of Ju/'hoan rituals include scenes from a wedding, keloid scarification,
and divining with oracle discs. Also included is winnowing of tobacco by non-San people
and activities of the Marshall expedition. Footage primarily shot by John Marshall;
additional photography by Laurence Marshall.