DER Documentary
!Kung Bushmen Hunting Equipment
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From the !Kung series
by John Marshall
color, 37 min, 1972
Pricing information and conditions
This film shows in detail all the pieces in the Ju/'hoan hunting kit and how each piece is made and used, from the collection of the raw materials to the final fabrication, including the preparation of poison arrows. !Kung Bushmen Hunting Equipment was shot by John Marshall between 1951 and 1953; it was edited by Frank Galvin under Lorna Marshall's direction.
Other films in the series:
- An Argument about Marriage
- Baobab Play
- Bitter Melons
- Children Throw Toy Assegais
- A Curing Ceremony
- Debe's Tantrum
- First Film
- A Group of Women
- The Hunters
- A Joking Relationship
- A Kalahari Family
- The !Kung San: Traditional Life
- The !Kung San: Resettlement
- Lion Game
- The Meat Fight
- N!owa T'ama: The Melon Tossing Game
- Men Bathing
- N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman
- N/um Tchai: the Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
- Playing with Scorpions
- Pull Ourselves Up or Die Out
- A Rite of Passage
- To Hold Our Own Ground: A Field Report
- Tug-Of-War, Bushmen
- The Wasp Nest
