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 (sound, color negative; 150,000 feet (69.5 hours), 16mm)
- Date
- 1978
- Archival Repository
- Human Studies Film Archives
- Identifier
- HSFA.1983.11, File 83.11.8
- 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.
- 83.11.8 shot log pdf
- NMNH-83_11_8_shotlogs.pdf
- Scope and Contents
- 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.
- 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-1644605100161-1644605103320-0
