Image India: Hindu Sacraments Childhood
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content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2005.10.69
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content: Carleton College Library educational film collection
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content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 900 feet, 16mm)
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content: 1969
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content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Edited film: Describes certain sacramental cleansings which mark passage from one critical juncture of life to the next. Depicts some major and minor sacraments of the first five years of a Hindu boy's life, as performed in the intimacy of a family circle, to demonstrate the centrality of domestic oriented worship in Hinduism.  Filmed in the Tehgali Brahman community of Srivaisnavas.

Credits: Dir. by H. Daniel Smith, Prod. by H.D. Smith: Hindu Ways Series, Film Marketing Division Syracuse University