Barbara Honeyman Roll collection
name: label: Creator
content: Roll, Barbara Honeyman
place: label: Place
content: Oceania
label: Place
content: Papua New Guinea
topic: label: Topic
content: Carving (Decorative arts)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This collection was donated by Barbara Honeyman Roll in 1990.
label: Provenance
content: The film was gifted to the Smithsonian by Dr. Barbara Roll in 1990.
creator: label: Creator
content: Roll, Barbara Honeyman
setName: label: See more items in
content: Barbara Honeyman Roll collection
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Barbara Ritchie Honeyman was born in 1910 in Portland, Oregon. She attended Smith College, graduating in 1932. Honeyman did her graduate work at New York University in the early 1950s.  In 1953 She married Scott Alexander Heath.  After his death in 1974, she married G. Frederick Roll. Barbara Honeyman Heath Roll was a leading authority on somatotyping (the study of human physical types in relation to culture and society) challenging the work of her former mentor, anthropologist William Sheldon.  In 1958, Margaret Mead asked Roll to conduct a somatype study of the Pere villagers to compliment Mead's own longitudinal study of social change on the Manus Island.  Roll's collaboration with Mead resulted in 16 visits to Pere village over the next 30 years. Roll died in 1998 in Carmel, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Film reels (color silent; 1162 feet, S8mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1990.15
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of roughly edited film of a 1975 visit to Pere Village, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea which documents anthropologist Margaret Mead's Mead's last return to a village that she studied and wrote about over a span of decades.

Also included is a copy of footage shot by Lenora Foerestal of John Kilepak's September 1969 visit to Carmel, Ca. when Kilepak stayed with Barbara and Fred Roll.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Smith College is the repository for the Barbara Honeyman Heath Roll papers which contain the field notes, photographs and somatotypes of Pere Village.

The William Sheldon papers are in the National Anthropoogical Archives.