Men Bathing
From the !Kung series
by John Marshall
color, 14 min, 1973
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In Nyae Nyae, water often remains in open pans. Sometimes if the rains have been heavy, water stays in these pans, like small lakes, all year. In this film five Ju/'hoan men visit Nama pan. /Ti!kay washes the clothes he acquired on his trip to rescue his band's wives from a farm (as shown in An Argument About a Marriage). The other men bathe. The men use the opportunity to exchange sexual jokes with pleasure and hilarity. This film provides an interesting comparison with A Group of Women.
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
- !Kung Bushmen Hunting Equipment
- The !Kung San: Traditional Life
- The !Kung San: Resettlement
- Lion Game
- The Meat Fight
- The Melon Tossing Game
- 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