Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 15
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 shots of David Attenborough seated in the prow of a boat delivering narration; explanation of the names of the islands in Melanesia, the history of their discovery; explanation of the man-made coral islands seen in distance as a defensive strategy by natives to headhunting and infestation by mosquitoes; establishing shots of a young woman removing coconut husks with a machete; mid- and long-range shots of villages, houses built on pilings in a lagoon; Attenborough delivering narration on shell money and other commodities (e.g., pigs, parrot feathers) used as money in Melanesia; close up shots of filmmaker handling the type of shell money used in the Solomons; his comments on the nature of head hunting in the Solomon Islands. 

Legacy Keywords: Headhunting defenses against ideas about Melanesia ; Ecology man-made islands defense ; Warfare defensive strategies Melanesia ; Tools machete use of ; Mutilation tatooing facial Solomon Islands ; Tatooing Solomon Islands ; Villages settlement patterns ; Wealth shell money ideas about Solomon Islands ; Money shell money Solomon Islands ; Trade shell money ideas about Solomon Islands ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; New Hebrides ; Solomon Islands ; Melita Island Lao lagoon ; Melanesians