Newari Film Project (1986.13.1-12)
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1986.13.1-12
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
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Film footage shot by Barbara Johnson among the Jyapu subcaste of the Newars of Tawnany Tole, Thecho village in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal; Morning of August 28, women work together pounding wheat, and a girl pounds wheat with women. August 28, 4 PM on, courtyard activities, including breastfeeding of a crawling, almost walking age child, and interaction between brothers. A boy cries near the courtyard communal water tap, and his sister is unable to get him to come with her. Their older sister comes and solves the problem by giving him a piggy back ride. Later in the morning views of women and girls spreading rice out to dry on corn husk mats in the courtyard. When they discover insects on one mat they place large leaves on the grain to attract the insects, remove the leaves, pick off the insects, and bring the leaves back to the mat for more.