Enga: A Deaf Girl's Sign Language
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1984.7.2
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kendon, Adam
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content: Adam Kendon films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (71 minutes, black-and-white sound; 2,400 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1975
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 documents the Enga, a sedentary subsistence horticulturalist group of the Enga Province found west of Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea. Footage was used as part of a study of a form of sign language used by a deaf girl named Imanoli. This study was also used to determine the extent to which features of Enga grammar is found in the sign language. Documented is a conversation between Dr. Ranier Lang and Imanoli which is translated into sign language by Imanoli's hearing sister. Included are 47 signed utterances and lengthy narrative passages from Imanoli.

Legacy keywords: Settlement rural