Precarious Balance
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 2004.19.1
name: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
label: Creator
content: Williams, Scott
place: label: Place
content: Oceania
label: Place
content: Micronesia
label: Place
content: Caroline Islands
topic: label: Topic
content: Boats and boating
label: Topic
content: Fishing
label: Topic
content: Outrigger canoes
creator: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
label: Creator
content: Williams, Scott
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Videocassette (10 minutes, color sound, 3/4 inch)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2004.19
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Videocassettes
label: Type
content: Video recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited video created by the Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications from film footage shot by Scott Williams in collaboration with the Smithsonian's National Human Studies Film Center for a National Museum of Natural History exhibit on Micronesia, ca. 1988.  Video shows the relationship of Micronesians to the sea (boys playing with toy boats, practicing spearing fish, various forms of fishing, launching a new boat).  Film was shot on the atoll of Yap in the Western Caroline Islands.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Human Studies Film Archives holds the Scott Williams collection.