[Marshall !Kung Expedition VIII]
name: label: Collection Collaborator
content: McElwee, Ross
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Blitz, Daniel
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Bishop, John Melville
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Baker, Peter
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Ritchie, Claire
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Young, Robert
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Terry, John
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Galvin, Frank
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Bestall, Clifford
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Gardner, Robert
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994
label: Collection Creator
content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Marshall, Lorna
setName: label: See more items in
content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection
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content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 1: Unedited Film and Video Projects
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (sound, color negative; 150,000 feet (69.5 hours), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1983.11, File 83.11.8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
otherfindaid: label: 83.11.8 shot log pdf
content: NMNH-83_11_8_shotlogs.pdf
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record shot during an expedition to the Nyae Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert
in Namibia. Footage contains interviews with N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman, during which she
discusses childhood, marriage, menstruation, relationships, rituals, and changes affecting
Ju/'hoan culture that have occurred during her life-time. Documentation of subsistence
activities includes: a giraffe hunt, children hunting wild rooster, bread making, eating
baobab fruit and honeycombs, and gathering grass. Aspects of daily life and rituals
include: trance-dancing and curing, a tribal council, an Ovambo beer party, the ostrich
game, dancing, singing, and playing the thumb piano. Footage records trade with a South
African film crew filming THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY and Afrikaner soldiers. Also
included are scenes and discussions concerning a medical clinic and construction of a
school house, a church service, an interview with the Afrikaans minister, voter registration,
distribution of mealie-meal, hunting on horse-back, and the screening of two films on the
Ju/'hoansi: N/UM TCHAI and THE HUNTERS. Footage from this expedition was used to
make the published title N!AI, THE STORY OF A !KUNG WOMAN. Footage shot by
John Marshall and Ross McElwee; additional photography by Mark Erder.