Documentary Films

Tug-Of-War - Bushmen

From the !Kung series
by John Marshall
(study guide available)
color, 6 min, 1974

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In the Ju/'hoan version of this universally popular game, boys in two teams wrestle over a length of rubber hose.

Study Guide (PDF)
Tug of War Study - Bushmen Study Guide

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
• 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
• The Wasp Nest