Object Details
- Collection Collaborator
- McElwee, Ross
- Blitz, Daniel
- Bishop, John Melville
- Baker, Peter
- Ritchie, Claire
- Young, Robert
- Terry, John
- Galvin, Frank
- Bestall, Clifford
- Gardner, Robert
- Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994
- Collection Creator
- Marshall, John, 1932-2005
- Collection Collaborator
- Marshall, Lorna
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- John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection
- John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 1: Unedited Film and Video Projects
- Sponsor
- Finding aid has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
- Extent
- Film reels (silent/sound, color reversal; 45,000 feet (21.75 hours), 16mm)
- Date
- 1955
- Archival Repository
- Human Studies Film Archives
- Identifier
- HSFA.1983.11, File 83.11.4
- Type
- Archival materials
- Film reels
- Collection Citation
- The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use. Information on reproduction and fees available from repository.
- 83.11.4 shot log pdf; 2 movie clips
- NMNH-83_11_4_shotlogs.pdf
- Scope and Contents
- Full film record shot during an expedition to the Kalahari Desert in Namibia and Botswana, sponsored by the Harvard Peabody Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. Footage primarily documents the hunting-and- gathering activities, domestic life, and music and dance of the /Gwi San in the central Kalahari Desert (Botswana). Documentation includes: gathering mangetti nuts, digging for poison grubs, gathering tsama melons and digging roots, setting snares and hunting with bows and arrows in the veldt, squeezing water from roots, sharing meat at the werft, collecting honey, squeezing and drinking water from the rumen (stomach) of large game, technologies (arrowmaking, working skins, and making cord from sansiveria leaves), sociability and ritual life (circle dance, scarification of women, porcupine game, hyena intercourse game, wrestling, storytelling, and music-making), and composing songs on the musical bow (with resonator) and //uashie (harp). Some documentation of the Ju/'hoansi at /Gatucha (Nyae Nyae region) includes: hunting and gathering activities, domestic life, and music and dance. Also included are various scenes around waterholes; San around Bachkalahari kraals; interaction between Herero, San, and Bantu peoples near police post and provision station; and various scenes of the Marshall expedition. The published title BITTER MELONS was produced from this project. Footage shot by John Marshall.
- Collection Restrictions
- The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection is open for research. Please contact the Archives for availabilty of access copies of audio visual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played. Materials relating to Series 6 Production Files are restricted and not available for research until 2048, 2063, 2072. Kinship diagrams in Series 13 are restricted due to privacy concerns. Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and maps.
- Record ID
- ebl-1644605100161-1644605103318-2
