Dances of the South Sea Islands
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1989.2.13
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Ananda Kentish), 1877-1947
label: Collection Creator
content: Holmes, Burton, 1870-1958
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content: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (17 minutes, silent black-and-white; 424 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1927
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 is a compilation believed to be composed of an incomplete film made for Paramount Pictograph which includes segments on dance in Samoa, Tonga, and New Zealand and PRINCESS MALAWAKA IN THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN HULA (Cine Art Productions, 1927). Featured are a demonstration of dance in Tonga including the royal laka-laka, the Samoan siva-siva with twirling of long knives and the related war dance, the martial haka-haka dance of the Maori, and the Poi, a Maori women's dance.