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Peoples and dances of Oceania (Motion picture)

Title
Peoples and dances of Oceania (Motion picture)
Publication
[193-?]

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Description
1 reel. 36 min. 860 ft. : si. b&w.; 16 mm.
Subject
  • Legong (Dance)
  • Djanger (Dance)
  • Dance > Oceania
  • Dance > French Polynesia > Society Islands
  • Dance > Cook Islands
  • Dance > Samoan Islands
  • Folk dancing > Samoan Islands
  • Dance > Fiji
  • Dance > Vanuatu
  • Dance > Trobriand Islands
  • Dance > Indonesia > Bali (Province)
Note
  • Probably filmed by one of Templeton Crocker's scientific expeditions.
Contents
CONTENTS. - Dances of Bora Bora, Society Islands. - Dances, including one using stilts, of Aitutaki, Cook Islands. Samoan ailao or knife dance. - Siva siva, the Samoan national dance. - Ax dance, the mauluulu or sasa and other Samoan dances. - Kava ceremony, Samoa. - Kava ceremony, Fiji. - Malekula Island, New Hebrides. - Kitava, Trobriand Islands. - Balinese dances. Dancing the legong and the djanger. - The 3 greatest actors in Bali. - An important feast day-the creese dance, Bali.
Call Number
*MGZHB 12-1922
OCLC
NYPY807050276-F
Title
Peoples and dances of Oceania (Motion picture)
Imprint
[193-?]
Local Subject
Motion pictures. Peoples and dances of Oceania.
Stilt dances.
Dagger dances.
Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Samoan Islands.
Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Fiji.
Research Call Number
*MGZHB 12-1922
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