AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 12
name: label: Collection Creator
content: American University (Washington, D.C.)
label: Collection Creator
content: Miller, Norman N., 1933-
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 1975-002
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (36 minutes, one film reel (1,353 feet) assembled film rolls 19 (camera rolls 37,38), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record shot in north central Afghanistan in a mountain village near Mazar. Shots include: scenes of male sociability inside a village dwelling; men drinking tea and conversing followed by man playing a wooden flute; two men working at a threshing floor at a mountain location above the village; shots of another threshing floor where oxen are being used to pull a threshing sled over the wheat; men harvesting wheat on an adjacent hillside; long-range shots of the village in the distance bisected by river; men approaching the village with laden donkeys.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Threshing wheat threshing floor Afghanistan ; Burdens use of animals to carry Afghanistan ; Musical instruments flutes Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Agricultural crops wheat Afghanistan ; Harvests wheat Afghanistan ; Entertainment of visitors music Afghanistan ; Oxen threshing floors Afghanistan ; Music

Credits: Di Gioia, Herbert filmmaker ; Hancock, David filmmaker ; Powell, Josephine ; Shafak, Toryali ; Dupree, Louis ; Dupree, Nancy, 1935-1980