KURU - Archive Film - People of the Kuru Region: Part 1

Archive footage from Kuru - The Science and The Sorcery.
Filmed by Carleton Gajdusek (1957-1962), these extracts of research films form part of the collection of the Melanesian Film Archive. The footage demonstrates daily activities among the Fore: a boy playing with a snake; a boy with bow and arrow; children at play; a man making the centre point to the roof of his house; a woman making a bilim (traditional string bag made from the fibre of bark of a tree); a woman beating the bark of a tree to make tapa cloth; various shots of males from neighbouring groups adorned in head dresses (a boy, a young man, and a man smoking a pipe); and a young boy playing with animals bladder for a toy.
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Science & Technology

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• Kuru
• PNG
• Science
• Sorcery
• Documentary
• Film
• Papua New Guinea
• Medical