Andris Slapins films
name: label: Creator
content: Slapins, Andris, 1949-1991
place: label: Place
content: Arctic regions
label: Place
content: Siberia
topic: label: Topic
content: Chukchi
label: Topic
content: Sirinek language
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Andris Slapins in 1989.
creator: label: Creator
content: Slapins, Andris, 1949-1991
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content: Andris Slapins films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (1 hour 58 minutes, black-and-white color sound; 4578 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982-1986
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1989.07
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Sound films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Two edited films by Andres Slapins of the Riga Film Studio, USSR, CHUKOTKA: COAST OF MEMORIES (1986), documenting Chukchi and the Siberian Eskimo peoples of the Chukotka Peninsula, and TIME OF DREAMS: SIBERIAN SHAMANISM (1982) documenting the work of several traditional shamans.

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