Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea, reel 2
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1982.7.1-2
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United States. Department of Agriculture
label: Collection Creator
content: Brandes, E. W. (Elmer Walker)), b. 1891
label: Collection Creator
content: Peck, Richard K.
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content: Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white silent, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929
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: Edited film reel (reel two) includes shots along the New Guinea coast between Samarai and Port Moresby which include aerial shots of native villages and gardens, unloading of ship provisions and loading a the smaller supply craft used to set up base camp; shots of natives drilling in military formation under the direction of colonial officer; aerial shots of native outriggers along the coast; shots of interior villages from the air; natives surrounding the monoplane at water's edge. Film has intertitles.

Legacy Keywords: Settlement patterns villages ; Agricultural crops gardens ; Colonial administration government officers ; Canoes outriggers ; Military accouterment dress natives ; Millenarian movements cargo cults symbolism of marching ; Language and culture