Location: | Reef Islands, Solomon Islands |
Subject: | Canoes; traditional money |
Length: | 7 minutes |
Format: | 1/2-inch VHS; 16mm |
Hue: | Color |
Year Released: | 1980 |
Series: | Solomon Islands |
Director: | Graham Chase, Martin Cohen |
Producer: | Don Murray |
Distributor: | Film Australia |
Library Code: | |
Description: | This film is in two parts. The first shows how the people of the Reef Islands make a large canoe using traditional tools. The second part shows manufacture of feather money in Santa Cruz. Feather money is slowly dying out; only one person still knows how to make it. This film records that method. (Available only as part of the 10-part series.) |
Record No: | 179 |
Resources: | Distributors's List |
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