Newari Film Project (1986.13.1-25)
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1986.13.1-25
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
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content: National Anthropological Film Center films of Nepal / Newari Film Project (1986.13.1)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound, 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
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content: Film footage shot by Barbara Johnson among the Jyapu subcaste of the Newars of Tawnany Tole, Thecho village in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal; CR 73, October 3, early morning in the Tawnany Tole courtyard. Older girls with younger brothers on their backs check their crocheting together. A young girl sits near the courtyard statue of Buddha while other children climb on it and play a stone toss game. Children share. Younger girls watch an older girl crochet, while a courtyard man, Bailal, works of his bicycle in the background. Bailal has a menial job in Kathmandu. An older sister takes a piece of rope from her younger sister and brings it to the courtyard way-house, or pathi. A grandmother arranges her hair while her grandchild climbs on her lap. Tulushimaya's children look out on the courtyard from their doorway, one of the girls urinates into the courtyard gutter. A group of children leave the courtyard together, younger children on the backs of 7 - 8 year old girls, to do some work outside the courtyard. Four year old Nankumari sitts on a mat in the courtyard, smiles at the camera. Later she gets absorbed in working with a needle(?), while her older sister Mayle stands nearby with her baby brother on her back. Another older girl sits with her younger sibling who is looking at a piece of corn husk. Three boys wind up some rope in the way-house. A mother helps her son remove his shirt, then checks it for body lice. She dries her wet hair in the sun, her son brings her a flower, and then nurses, as others are spreading grains out on mats in the courtyard. CR 74, mid-dayon October 3, the widow Nakali, with whom the filmmaker stayed, beats some dried branches (from old chilli pepper plants?) in front of her house, while the children from next door, her great neices, watch and squabble with each other. The younger girl, Cyrimaya, has something that her older sister Nankumari takes. When Cyrimaya can't get it back she takes a coin from her pocket and conspicuously holds, drops and picks it up while Nakali works. Tulushimaya, mother of 6 daughters, no sons, puts silver barretts in her oldest daughter's hair, while a group of women, older girls and children sit in the courtyard way-house. Nakali sits outside her house, shooing chickens from grain spread on mats with a long stick, and talking with Cyrimaya and Nankumari. Three boys of different ages play. Two older girls who are relatives of Nakali, Baramaya and Gangamaya, tie up chilli branches and corn stalks. A cry goes out that it's raining "Wa walla" and everyone in the courtyard moves to get the grain off their mats. Cyrimaya and her mother, Gyanmaya put grain in a sack, then Cyrimaya plays with a winnowing basket, rolls up a mat, and imitates her mother while her mother works. A boy nearby hits and pushes a dog. CR 75, 6 - 7:30 AM, October 4, scenes around the courtyard water tap, which runs once in the morning and once in the evening each day. Boys dressed in school clothes wash their faces, a woman fills a water jar, a father comes out of his house and calls his daughters. A sister washes her younger brother's face, and they have to move to let water buffalos pass. Another girl sets a dish of flowers on a water jar while she washes her face. The oldest grandfather in the courtyard and some girls all perform morning devotions around the Buddha statue, offering water libations, flowers, touching their heads to each of 4 sides of the Buddha statue, circling clockwise 3 times, and marking themselves with red powder tikka marks on their foreheads. Other children come and remove the flowers from the statue. Children play in and near thecourtyard way-house as it starts to rain.