Pearls and Savages
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1989.1.1
name: label: Creator
content: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962
place: label: Place
content: Oceania
label: Place
content: Papua New Guinea
topic: label: Topic
content: Gogodala (Papua New Guinean people)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from The American Film Institute (National Center for Film and Video Preservation) in 1989.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (10 minutes, black-and-white sound; 877 feet, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1921
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1989.01
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Sound films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Incomplete edited film is believed to be a reel from a later version of PEARLS AND SAVAGES shot in New Guinea in 1921. Footage includes: on and over the Fly and Strickland rivers and around Lake Murray, overviews of native settlements, Gogodala people of the Fly River Delta paddling canoes, males in cockatoo and cassowary plumed headdresses, large river houses and big houses thatched with sago palm, and local people around sea plane. Reel concludes with scenes of European adventurers standing next to human skulls on post near riverbank. This version contains a fictional narration of the heart-of-darkness genre not originally associated with the Hurley film.

Dwellings Papua New Guinea ; Villages Fly River New Guinea ; Adornment headwear Papua New Guinea ; Aerial photography Paupa New Guinea ; Canoes Papua New Guinea ; Airplanes for exploration Papua New Guinea ; Cannibalism skulls Papua New Guinea ; Language and culture

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