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Object Number
985-28-00/1.9
Display Title
Masai women, 16 mm film. color, sound, 55 min.
Descriptions
Object Description
Professional educational film about the animal herding Masai of Africa. Narration, footage of events in Masai village and subtitled interviews with women. Follows a woman from her circumcision ceremony to her initiation to her husband's village. Other topics discussed are women's rights, fertility, childbearing, taking of lovers, ceremony of coming of age of sons, inheritance laws, challenges of being childless, myths explaining challenges to women
Department
Photographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Tanzania
Africa / Kenya
Africa / Kenya
Materials
Film
Quantity
1
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