Pak Menggung: a Javanese Aristocrat
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.8.4
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content: Penn State educational films
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content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 740 feet, 16mm)
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content: 1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Edited film by Film Australia explores the life of Pak Menggung, a descendant of Javanese royalty who lives in Sulu, Java (Indonesia). Film details how the elderly aristocrat perpetuates his traditional language, material culture, and customs in a society altered by Dutch colonialism.

Legacy Keywords: Royalty Java ; Garb royalty Java

Credits: Morris, John ; Gow, Keith