AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 10
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 (27 minutes, one film reel (954 feet) assembled film rolls 17 (camera rolls 33,34), 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 goatherder driving his animals along path leading from village; another herder driving his sheep out to graze; scenes in the marketplace and along the shop stalls of the village; shots of a cloth merchant's shop with merchant using an abacus to tally accounts; a blacksmith shoeing a horse; sheep and goats being herded into the village.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Herders goats sheep Afghanistan ; Markets vendors Afghanistan ; Animal husbandry goats sheep Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Blacksmiths shoeing horses Afghanistan ; Bookkeeping merchants accounts Afghanistan ; Shops shopkeepers Afghanistan ; Abacus merchant's accounts Afghanistan

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