Frivolous Fiji
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1989.18.2
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Lieshout, Henry van
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content: Henry van Lieshout films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (black-and-white silent; 231 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920
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 for the Educational Films Corporation of America, documents various subsistence and ritual activities of Fijians. Scenes include fishing with spears and nets, gathering poison vines and preparing fish poison, collecting giant sea slugs known as bech de mer, women weaving palm fiber fans and plaiting their hair, kava root being extracted and ground in mortar, and a firewalking ritual accompanied by the playing of slit gongs.