| Location: | Papua New Guinea |
| Subject: | Social life |
| Length: | 320 ft (9 min) |
| Format: | 1/2-inch VHS |
| Hue: | Color |
| Year Released: | c 1950s |
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| Distributor: | Smithsonian HSFA |
| Library Code: | Smithsonian HSFA 91.7.3 |
| Description: | Incomplete edited film structured around scenes of coastal (southern) and highland Papuan life. Film features examples of body painting and tattooing of coastal Papuan girls, the manufacture of grass skirts, and a fictional ÒcourtshipÓ scene. Footage of the highland (probably of Mt Hageners or Enga) includes a pig feast. |
| Record No: | 2853 |
| Resources: | Distributors's List |
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