Travel footage of Africa
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1986.11.8
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Freeman, Ethel Cutler, 1886-1972
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content: Ethel Cutler Freeman films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (40 minutes, silent color reversal, 16mm; 1300 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1949-1950
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 a family trip from Capetown, South Africa, through Uganda, Nyasaland (Malawi) and the Congo, to Cairo, Egypt. Footage of ethnographic interest includes: street vendors and rickshaw boys in Capetown, a Zulu wedding and a Zulu Zionist congregation, Mbuti Pygmies at a temporary village camp in the Ituri Forest, Watusi dancers at a colonial outpost, and Masai herders in Kenya. Also included are: wildlife in Murchison Falls National Park, the Kabaka royal tombs of the Baganda at Kasubi, Lake Edward, Semwaki Valley, and the Ruwenzori Mountains in Uganda; Sudan; Nile Valley; and Cairo. Other locations of interest include: Table Mountain, Cape Town, Kruger Park in South Africa and Limbe (Blantyre), Nyasaland.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Ceremony crossing the equator ; Vendors Cape Town, South Africa ; Food preparation stamping grain ; Weddings Zulu South Africa ; Musical instruments drums string harps ; Dance Zulu Watusi Mbuti ; Markets Kenay Uganda Egypt ; Zulu (African people) ; Masai (African people) Kenya ; Mbuti (African people) Ituri Forest ; Watusi Rwanda