Melville Herskovits films
name: label: Creator
content: Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
label: Names
content: Herskovitz, Frances S. (Frances Shapiro), 1897-1972
label: Names
content: Kahn, Morton C. (Morton Charles), 1896-1959
label: Names
content: Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986
place: label: Place
content: Africa, West
label: Place
content: Caribbean Area
label: Place
content: South America
label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Benin
label: Place
content: Nigeria
label: Place
content: Ghana
label: Place
content: Haiti
label: Place
content: Surinam
label: Place
content: Georgia
topic: label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Agriculture
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These films and related papers were transferred to the National Anthropological Film Center by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University in 1977.
creator: label: Creator
content: Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
culture: label: Culture
content: Fon (African people)
label: Culture
content: Ashanti (African people)
label: Culture
content: Saramacca (Surinamese people)
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content: Melville Herskovits films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Film reels (black-and-white silent)
label: Extent
content: 0.25 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928-1934
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1977.01
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
bibliography: label: Selected Bibliography
content: Herskovits, Melville Jean, "Book about Negroes,"  -- The Nation, --  (July 15, 1931), 68-69.

Herskovits, Melville Jean.  -- Life in a Haitian Valley. --  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937.

Herskovits, Melville Jean.  -- Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom. --  New York: J. J. Augustin, 1938.

Herskovits, Melville J., and Frances S.,  -- Rebel Destiny: Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana. --   New York: McGraw Hill, 1934. 

 Kahn, Morton.  -- Djuka, The Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana. --  New York: Viking Press, 1931.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited footage shot in West Africa (1931), Haiti (1934) and Georgia (U.S. ca. 1930) for/by Melville Herskovits.

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