Image India: Monthly Ancestral Offerings
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2005.10.74
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content: Carleton College Library educational film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 288 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969
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: Depicts the reverential offerings made by the Hindus to departed ancestors. Provides an understanding of how ritualism defines even eschatological hope in Hinduism, and indicates why a son is regarded highly. Filmed within the Tengalai brahman community of Srivaisnavas.

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