The Masai
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1988.16.7
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Casselton, Harold "Rusty", 1954-1970
label: Collection Collector
content: Larson, Ted M., 1940-2000
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content: Harold Casselton and Ted Larson films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (14 minutes, black-and-white silent; 374 feet, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929
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: Edited film produced by Pathe Science Series in cooperation with Harvard University's Department of Anthropology. The film depicts variations in the phenotype of the Masai and illustrates facets of their cultural ecology as a cattle herding people. Film includes: subsistence activities such as milking and drawing blood from cattle, women plastering habitations with cattle dung, men in headruffs demonstrating styles of communal dance, and contrasting forms of body ornamentation for men and women.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Cattle animal husbandry Nilotic ; Herding cattle milking ; Architecture, Domestic ; Dancing Africa ; Body marking Africa ; Adornment ; Masai (African people) ; Pathe Science Series