Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 16
name: label: Collection Producer
content: British Broadcasting Corporation
label: Collection Host
content: Attenborough, David, 1926-
label: Collection Director
content: MacIntyre, Michael
setName: label: See more items in
content: Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color sound, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974-1975
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: Outtakes from edited film includes shots of David Attenborough handling shell money; establishing shots of Lao lagoon with men in canoes; holding pens for pigs built on stilts over the water; a large canoe being paddled by a dozen or more children across the lagoon and up an inlet to collect fresh water; close up and mid-range shots of the children and canoes as they make they way up the inlet singing in pidgin English; landing the canoe and filing off with an assortment of containers; making they way up steep path. comments on the nature of head hunting in the Solomon Islands. 

Legacy Keywords: Money shell money Melanesia ; Wealth shell money Melanesia ; Canoes transportation ; Villages settlement patterns ; Work groups children chores ; Speech pidgin ; Singing children Melanesia ; Carrying water ; Chores of children Solomon Islands ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; New Hebrides ; Solomon Islands ; Melita Island Lao lagoon ; Melanesians