| Location: | Papua New Guinea |
| Subject: | Documentary |
| Length: | 2,336 feet |
| Format: | Archival Film/1/2-inch VHS |
| Hue: | B&W |
| Year Released: | 1930 |
| Series: | |
| Director: | |
| Producer: | Department of Agriculture |
| Distributor: | Smithsonian HSFA |
| Library Code: | Smithsonian HSFA 82.7.1 |
| Description: | Edited film and outtakes of a Department of Agriculture project to locate disease-resistant varieties of sugarcane in New Guinea using an airplane fitted with pontoons. Footage includes aerial views of coastal and highland villages; encounters with Papuans in dugout canoes; people being put through military drill by a local district officer; men's houses and their associated statuary art; and subsistence activities including preparing sac-sac, a tapioca staple made from the pith of the sago palm. |
| Record No: | 1979 |
| Resources: | Distributors's List |
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