The Akhas: Hill Tribe of Thailand  Part 1
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 2004.10.1
name: label: Collection Producer
content: Ushiyama, Jun'ichi, 1930-1997
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content: Man TV
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 1800 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974-1975
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: A film crew spent seven months over one year filming during each season in the mountainous borderland between Thailand and Burma.  Filmed are the moving of the Akhas from one village where they had lived for ten years to a new village; accidental deaths of two youths on the new site causing the villagers to relocate; at the new village site tje Akhas burn hillside for new rice farming land; sorcery practices to communicate with the spirits for protecting and giving prosperity to the village and to drive away evil spirits; and the "Yeh Ku," or swing festival, which is held in autumn to celebrate the rice harvest and includes the one day when the Akhas stand on high poles with a swinging bar. 

Legacy Keywords: Agriculture ; Rice as a crop Asia ; Harvests rice Thailand ; Celebrations post-harvest Thailand ; Witchcraft ; Language and culture ; Asia ; Thailand