[Marshall !Kung Expedition VI]
name: label: Collection Collaborator
content: McElwee, Ross
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Blitz, Daniel
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Bishop, John Melville
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Baker, Peter
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Ritchie, Claire
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Young, Robert
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Terry, John
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Galvin, Frank
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Bestall, Clifford
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Gardner, Robert
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994
label: Collection Creator
content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Marshall, Lorna
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content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection
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content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 1: Unedited Film and Video Projects
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (sound/silent color/black-and-white reversal; 183,000 feet (84.75 hours), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1957-1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1983.11, File 83.11.6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
otherfindaid: label: 83.11.6a shot log pdf, 83.11.6b shot log pdf
content: NMNH-83_11_6a_shotlogs.pdf

NMNH/NMNH-83_11_6b_shotlogs.pdf
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record shot during an expedition to the Nyae Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert
in Namibia, sponsored by the Harvard Peabody Museum. Locations include: the plains
south of !Nama, !Nama pan, !Kubi, Tsumkwe, !O, and /Gautcha waterhole. Subsistence
activities documented include: gathering mangetti nuts and tsi, eating kamako berries and
mayeth nuts, digging for roots, preparation of lamb, herding and milking of cows, killing a
puff adder, and hunting giraffe, hartebeest, and wildebeest. Technologies illustrated
include: arrow-making and poisoning, stringing beads, preparation of hides, making a
musical bow, and working on thongs. Aspects of sociability, and daily and ceremonial life
include: male and female ornamentation; various games (porcupine game, melon tossing
game, and djani bird toy); curing and trance dancing; administration of medicine; and
playing musical instruments (including the musical bow, the one-stringed violin, the
//uashi (harp), and the harmonica). Also included is footage of skerms (shelters), activities
at Bantu sites (dancing, pounding mealie-meal, grinding corn, and winnowing tobacco),
various wildlife, and activities of the Marshall expedition. Footage from this expedition
was used to make the published titles: AN ARGUMENT ABOUT A MARRIAGE,
BAOBAB PLAY, CHILDREN THROW TOY ASSEGAIS, A CURING CEREMONY,
DEBE'S TANTRUM, GROUP OF WOMEN, A JOKING RELATIONSHIP, LION
GAME, THE MEAT FIGHT, THE MELON TOSSING GAME, MEN BATHING, N/UM
TCHAI, PLAYING WITH SCORPIONS, TUG OF WAR, and THE WASP NEST.
Footage primarily shot by John Marshall; additional photography by Robert Gardner and
Robert Gesteland.