Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea, reel 5
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1982.7.1- 5
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United States. Department of Agriculture
label: Collection Creator
content: Brandes, E. W. (Elmer Walker)), b. 1891
label: Collection Creator
content: Peck, Richard K.
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content: Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white silent, 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 reel (reel 5) includes shots of a native village which includes women with woven mat headcovers, interior shots of a men's house showing sleeping quarters, ritual and domestic paraphenalia; scenes of men smoking tobacco and details footage documenting the stages and sexual division of labor involved in making native tapioca known as "sac-sac". This includes shots of males felling and de-barking a sago palm, pulverizing its pith with special mallets, women carrying the pounded sago to a strainer/washing trough, decanting the sago starch, and cooking the mixture to proper consistency. Film has intertitles.

Legacy Keywords: Settlement patterns villages ; Agricultural crops gardens ; Division of labor by sex preparing tapioca ; Houses men's house tambaran ; Hearths men's house ; Smoking tobacco ; Tools stone axes mallets ; Food preparation division of labor by sex ; Dress adornment ; Basketry palm spathes ; Cooking sago palm ; Eating "sac-sac" ; Language and culture