Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea, reel 4
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1982.7.1-4
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United States. Department of Agriculture
label: Collection Creator
content: Brandes, E. W. (Elmer Walker)), b. 1891
label: Collection Creator
content: Peck, Richard K.
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content: Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white silent, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929
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: Edited film reel (reel 4) includes aerial and ground shots of the Sepik River between Lae and Ambunti, a native police camp; Shots include: aerial views of a coconut plantation; Father Kirschbaum (a missionary) boarding the plane for flight upriver; scenes in a native village including shots of a "House Tambaran" (large ornate men's house), statuary art associated with the tambaran, male natives wearing penis sheaths, and dugout canoes. Film has intertitlies.

Local Keywords: Settlement patterns villages ; Agricultural crops gardens ; Labor natives ; Canoes dugouts ; Missionaries Father Kirschbaum ; Houses men's house tambaran ; Carving art men's house ; Art statuary ; Adornment hairstyles shells ; Dress penis sheaths ; Penis sheaths ; Airplanes for exploration Papua New Guinea ; Language and culture