West Africa, Sierra Leone (Mende) -- Catching Small Fish and Searching for Shellfish
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.175; E00231
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (5 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1955
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: women fish for small mussels close to the bank, and they dig into the mud for mussels with curved hollow blades. Men wade through shallow water, grope for large mussels with their feet, and place the shellfish in large baskets.
Legacy Keywords: Sierra Leone ; West Africa, Sierra Leone ; Africa; Mende