Fiji
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1995.11.2
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Jones, R. Bryson
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content: R. Bryson Jones travel films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (52 minutes, black-and-white silent; 920 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940
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: Incomplete edited film used by an amateur travel-lecturer documents travel in Fiji and possibly other local islands. Footage contains scenes of parade grounds (military review with Fijian regiment and Fijian marching band); dancing on parade grounds (meke, mekei (fan dance) and dancing with drua (bamboo stamping tubes); outrigger canoe; Fijian village as seen from the water; school children doing exercises; men cutting sugar cane; gathering water or sap from a palm; plowing fields with oxen; Fijian seminary or orphanage run by nuns; women and children (washing clothes, climbing palm trees, and dancing); and men and women in traditional dress creating roasting pit and covering it with hot rocks and palm leaves. Also shown are Fiji's Indian population (Indian market, Indian wedding couple and young man having his turban wrapped). Other dances include mock battle dance by children, women doing sea sea (sitting dance), Rotuman dancers with knives and a group of girls doing a mix of Samoan and Fijian dance movements.