Tanna Island (1975.1.2 - 2)
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.1.2 - 2
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Müller, Kal, 1939-
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content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
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content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 2: Tanna Island films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 789 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973-1974
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: Footage shot on Tanna Island during 1973 at the Yelgis ceremonial ground, Yoohnanan village area. Footage includes rehearsal of nao dances (formerly outlawed by missionaries) which are part of the revitalizaion practices of the John Frum cargo cult members; male dancers in ceremonial regalia; dancers performing a sequence of traditional dances with tall dance staves; shots of individual skits within the communal dance framework--mimicry of a pigeon hiding from a hawk under its wing, a policeman and man fighting, and a man working in garden who burns his back; scenes of dancers moving en masse around the ceremonial ground; breakup of the rehersal with dance staves piled next to large tree; dispersal of dancers around the compound. (An essential reference for ethnographic background on activities depicted is: Guiart, Jean 1956 Un siecle et Demi de Contacts Culturels a Tanna, Publication de la Societe des Oceanistes, No. 5, Musee de l'Homme: Paris.)