AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 3
name: label: Collection Creator
content: American University (Washington, D.C.)
label: Collection Creator
content: Miller, Norman N., 1933-
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 1975-002
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (52 minutes, one film reel (1,841 feet) assembled film rolls 4 (camera rolls 7,8) and 5 (camera rolls 9,10), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
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: Full film record shot in north central Afghanistan by the American Universities Field Staff for a series on the nomadic Maldar tribe. Shots include: an interview sequence with Afghan men drinking tea and reclining in a house; a man playing a flute following the interview; goats being herded into a domestic compound; herders descending steep mountain slopes with their cattle; herder drawing water from a subterranean cistern and watering his cattle and goats; scenes at a mountain threshing floor where wheat is prepared for threshing; man tethering cattle together and driving them around the floor to thresh the wheat; juxtaposed scenes of men herding goats; harvesting wheat, and working at the threshing floor.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Crops agriculture wheat Afghanistan ; Harvests wheat Afghanistan ; Wheat method of harvesting Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Work groups harvesting Afghanistan ; Musical instruments flutes Afghanistan ; Threshing wheat use of cattle in Afghanistan ; Tools sickles use of in harvesting Afghanistan ; Cisterns used for watering herds Afghanistan ; Herders cattle goats Afghanistan

Credits: Di Gioia, Herbert filmmaker ; Hancock, David filmmaker ; Powell, Josephine ; Shafak, Toryali ; Dupree, Louis ; Dupree, Nancy, 1935-1980