Ethnographic Film Survey of Tamang and Sherpa Villages, Nepal
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1986.13.21
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Anthropological Film Center (U.S.)
label: Collection Creator
content: Johnson, Barbara
label: Collection Creator
content: Dorjee, Ragpa
label: Collection Creator
content: Reinhard, Johan
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content: National Anthropological Film Center films of Nepal
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color silent; 1,900 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978
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: Footage shot for the National Anthropological Film Center, Smithsonian Institution for purposes of identifying villages for a possible future film project. Aspects of daily life are featured: women and children bathing, the village-wide building of a house, children playing, men playing the flute, woman carrying toddler in a basket, mother teaching children to pound wheat, men gambling, women weaving, women drying rice in the sun on bamboo mats and washing dishes in clay pots outside. Also documented is a religious ceremony where a blessing is given, and men drum followed by a celebration of dancing and eating and villagers adorn themselves with elaborate and colorful braided headbands and red scarves.