Saramacca Maroons of Surinam
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1977.1.4
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
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content: Melville Herskovits films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (black-and-white silent; 1438 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928
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 during a field trip in Dutch Guyana (Surinam). Included are: Maroons poling boats up the Saramacca River, negotiating rapids and shallows; shots in Parimaribo of Creole Blacks in yards; aspects of Creole dress; Saramacca woman winnowing grain; man working on a dugout canoe; natives playing wari (a West African game widely distributed in the New World); portaging of large canoes over shallow rapids; village with thatched houses; a gudu wosu (man's personal house) with distinctive carving on door and frontice; natives posing with carved paddles; Maroon playing the apinti drum used to telegraph messages from village to village; Lombe village; chief posing in traditional dress; Saramacca crafts--man carving paddle; shrines in Lombe; and the medicine man of Gandya Village.