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Dani Houses



by Karl Heider
color, 16 min, 1974



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Filmed in l963 by Karl Heider, a member of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition, Dani Houses observes, with a minimum of narration, both round and square house construction techniques of the Grand Valley Dani, a Papuan culture of Irian Jaya (West New Guinea). Shows how the ground is cleared, walls are made from boards, poles lashed together, and a roof is thatched.

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