Pacific Island

Duration: 22

Year Published: 1949

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Shows the daily activities of the natives who live on Likiep, a coral island in the Marshall Islands. Pictures the inhabitants building a boat, weaving baskets, caring for their thatched hut homes and their village, conducting a fishing expedition, attending school, and worshipping. Follows the men as they hunt and capture a giant turtle; then shows the people eating it at a birthday feast.

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