Mbuti Pygmy Footage: Forest Camp, Bira and Ngwana Villages, and Station de Chasse
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.13.6
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Towles, Joseph A.
label: Collection Creator
content: Turnbull, Colin M.
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content: Colin Turnbull and Joseph Towles films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (black-and-white silent; 677 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1954
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 in the Ituri forest, Belgian Congo (Zaire). Footage includes: Pgymy camp life near an Ndaka village; Nkumbi initiates in the Ngwana village of Musafu (later destroyed during the Simba Revolt) and the Bira village of Eboyo; and Station de Chasse on the Epulu River organized for capturing elephants and okapis and training elephants. See also [Joseph Towles Zaire Film Study: Nkumbi and Elimina Initiations: Mbuti, Bandaka and BaBira, 1970-1972], [Mbuti Pygmy Film Study, 1954: Edited Version], and [Mbuti Pygmy Film Study, 1971-1972].

Supplementary materials: associated texts and annotations (recorded narratives).

Legacy keywords: Initiation rites nkumbi Belgian Congo ; Musical instruments slit gong playing making of Bira Belgian Congo ; Drumming nkumbi initiates Mbuti Belgian Congo ; Smoking pipes bananna stem Mbuti Belgian Congo ; Musical instruments zither string bow Mbuti Belgian Congo ; Cloth trade cloth Ndaka Belgian Congo ; Camps Mbuti Belgian Congo ; Tourism zoos Belgian Congo ; Elephants training of Epulu Station de Chasse Belgian Congo

Cameraman: Frances Chapman