Dani Houses

Duration: 16

Genre: Documentary | Educational | Ethnographic | Historical

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Educational Development Center

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Observes, with a minimum of narration, both round and square house construction techniques of the Grand Valley Dani, a Papuan culture of Irian Jaya (West New Guinea). Shows how the ground is cleared, walls are made from boards and poles lashed together, and a roof is thatched. Filmed in l963 by Karl G. Heider, a member of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition.

Complete Record: Observes, with a minimum of narration, both round and square house construction techniques of the Grand Valley Dani, a Papuan culture of Irian Jaya (West New Guinea). Shows how the ground is cleared, walls are made from boards and poles lashed together, and a roof is thatched. Filmed in l963 by Karl G. Heider, a member of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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