University Research Expeditions Program: Kenya and Tanzania videos
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 2012.7.1
place: label: Place
content: Africa, East
label: Place
content: Kenya
label: Place
content: Tanzania
topic: label: Topic
content: Barabaig (African people)
label: Topic
content: Water-supply
label: Topic
content: Ceramics
label: Topic
content: Blacksmithing
label: Topic
content: Beadwork
label: Topic
content: Shamans
label: Topic
content: Traditional medicine
label: Topic
content: Medicinal plants
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Jean Colvin and the University of California, Berkeley in 2012.
culture: label: Culture
content: Rendile (African people)
label: Culture
content: Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)
setName: label: See more items in
content: University Research Expeditions Program: Kenya and Tanzania videos
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 77 Videocassettes (Betacam) (27 hours, color sound)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1986
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "University Research Expeditions Program Videotapes: Kenya and Tanzania 1986."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2012.07
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Videocassettes (betacam)
label: Type
content: Video recordings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Videotape field project shot by Ken Forsyth in Africa for the University Research Expeditions Program, University of California, Berkeley, focusses on three groups in Kenya and Tanzania. Videotapes of the Rendille, pastoralists from northern Kenya are concerned primarily with water resources and capture daily life includng scenes of young men digging wells, women collecting water and loading camels, traditional housing, camels in satellite camps managed by young warriors and various interviews about issues of water and sedentarization and shrinking acess to pasture with Rendille elders, a local missionary and the director of a UNESCO project in the Rendille area. The videotapes of the Barabaig, a pastoralist group of the Nilotic Datoga of central Tanzania was shot in conjunction with the Tanzanian National Museum material culture collecting project and documents pottery making, blacksmithing, prepartion of a beaded hide skirt and various images of daily life. The videotapes of the Luo from central Kenya around Kisumu document tradtional healers and includes scenes of the village, collecting and pressing plants and interviews with traditional healers.

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