Mortimer Fuller safari film
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1983.1.1
name: label: Former owner
content: Fuller, Mortimer
place: label: Place
content: Africa, East
label: Place
content: Uganda
label: Place
content: Egypt
label: Place
content: Sudan
topic: label: Topic
content: Safaris
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Mortimer Fuller c/o Bob Schweitzer, Everhart Museum, in 1983.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (50 minutes, black-and-white silent reversal; 1,345 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1930
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "African Hunting Trip 1930."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1983.01
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Travelogues (motion pictures)
label: Type
content: Silent films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Travelogues (Motion pictures)
label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage shot during a hunting expedition to east Africa including Uganda, Kenya, Egypt, and the Sudan. Footage includes: shipboard ritual of "crossing the equator," passage through the Suez Canal, a local ceremony staged for visitors by Acholi tribesmen, Kikuyu dance, monumental Egyptian sculpture and architecture, and various hunting activities and camps of the safari. A significant feature of this safari footage is the stereotyped interactions of dominance and subordination between African bearers and the wazungu, the local term for Europeans.

Collection contains supplementary materials, namely, sound recordings and annotations (recorded narratives).

Legacy keywords: Ceremony crossing the equator ; Ceremony "engoma" ; Dancing drums ; Adornment headdress ; Architecture monumental ; Sculpture monumental Temple of Abdul Smaal ; Writing pictographic hieroglyphics ; Pottery pottery wheel ; Settlements residential enclosure boma ; Hunting safari native bearers ; Language and culture ; Tourism ; Dance ; Music ; Instruments musical instruments ; Cruise ships ; Kikuyu (African people) ; Acoli (African people)

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