| Location: | New Guinea |
| Subject: | Documentary |
| Length: | 10 minutes |
| Format: | 16mm |
| Hue: | B&W |
| Year Released: | 1933 |
| Series: | |
| Director: | Michael Leahy |
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| Library Code: | NFSA |
| Description: | Documents a singsing at Mt. Hagen (probably the first highland singsing seen by a European); grass skirts; bottoms dancing; shell decorations worn as body ornaments; a colonial administrator (General Griffiths) making a speech at the base camp; elaborate headdresses; demonstrating the power of the gun by the killing of a pig; a "first contact;" examination of a tomahawk; shy women; shaking hands; a stretcher bearing a sick man to Bob Gurnehy's Fox Moth to fly to Lae; Dan Leahy starting the propeller for takeoff; and a well-dressed man. Silent. |
| Record No: | 1076 |
| Resources: | Distributors's List |
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