Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 18
name: label: Collection Producer
content: British Broadcasting Corporation
label: Collection Host
content: Attenborough, David, 1926-
label: Collection Director
content: MacIntyre, Michael
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content: Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color sound, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974-1975
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: Outtakes from edited film includes establishing shots of lagoon activities, canoes, swinners, quay, and houses; detailed close up shots of the tools, techniques, and processes involved in the manufacture of shell money of the type used in the Solomon Islands; shots of the workings of a native "mint" with division of labor in the manufacture process (i.e., natives using pounding stones to "rough out" small individual pieced of shell, using drill bows to perforate shell pieces, stringing of shell pieces, final smoothing and polishing process of the shell necklaces. Work is done to the accompaniment of music.

Legacy Keywords: Villages quays Solomon Islands ; Manufacture shell money Solomon Islands ; Money manufacture of Solomon Islands ; Singing as palliative to work Solomon Islands ; Work groups money manufacture of Solomon Islands ; Tools drill bows polishing stones Solomon Islands ; Adornment bone ornament nose Solomon Islands ; Body marking ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; New Hebrides ; Solomon Islands ; Melita Island Lao lagoon ; Melanesians