E.C. Higbee Travel Footage of the British West Indies
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1990.3.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Higbee, Edward Converse
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content: Edward Higbee films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (55 minutes, black-and-white silent; 1,527 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925
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 records travels to various Caribbean locations including Cuba, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Venezuela, and Panama. Shots include landscapes and street scenes in Havana, Kingston, Port-of-Spain, Caracas, and the Panama Canal. Urban and rural shots of interest include market scenes with higglers, shanty life, cockfights, a fife-and-drum band with stiltwaker in a Jonkonnu celebration, Moro Castle (Havana), rafting on the Rio Cobre River (Jamaica), and East Indian marketwomen (Trinidad).