AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 6
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: 2 Film reels (37 minutes, two film reels (1,320 feet) assembled film rolls 10 (camera rolls 19,20) and 11 (camera rolls 21,22), 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 in a mountain village near Mazar. Shots include: panoramas of the village and surrounding mountains with cattle grazing the hillsides; domestic compounds and their enclosures; scenes of man and his sons weeding and tilling a garden; irrigation of the garden with construction of small canals to direct water; scenes of village marketplace and shops; boys with horse in the river swimming in rapids; washing horse in shallow water; goatherders outside the village.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Herders cattle goats Afghanistan ; Gardens weeding tillage Afghanistan ; Irrigation gardens Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Turbans method of attachment Afghanistan ; Dwellings domestic compounds Afghanistan ; Markets village shops Afghanistan ; Merchants shops Afghanistan ; Rivers swimming Afghanistan

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