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Spear Thrower Making, Including Stone Flaking And Gum Preparation

Shows Minma cut and shape a piece of acacia wood, flake a stone for a knife, collect spinifex grass gum, melt it, and fasten knife to handle of spear thrower. He also mounts a peg on spear thrower to receive end of spear shaft.

Credits

Directed by
Ian Dunlop

More in People of the Australian Western Desert Series

  1. Cooking Kangaroo 1965
  2. Fire Making 1965
  3. Gum Preparation, Stone Flaking - Djagamara Leaves 1965
  4. Old Campsites At Tika Tika 1965
  5. Seed Cake Making And General Camp Activity 1965
  6. Spear Making - Boy's Spear Fight 1965
  7. Spear Thrower Making, Including Stone Flaking And Gum Preparation 1965
  8. Spinning Hair String - Getting Water From Well, Binding Girl's Hair 1965
  9. People Of The Australian Western Desert, Pt 1 - Seed Cake Making And General Camp 1969
  10. People Of The Australian Western Desert, Pt 10 - Cooking Kangaroo 1969
  11. People Of The Australian Western Desert, Pt 2 - Gum Preparation, Stone Flaking, 1969
  12. People Of The Australian Western Desert, Pt 3 - Sacred Boards And An Ancestral Site 1969
  13. People Of The Australian Western Desert, Pt 5 - Old Camp Sites At Tika Tika 1969
  14. People Of The Australian Western Desert, Pt 6 - Spear Making, Boys Spear Fight 1969
  15. People Of The Australian Western Desert, Pt 7 - Spear - Thrower Making, Including 1969
  16. People Of The Australian Western Desert, Pt 8 - Fire Making 1969
  17. People Of The Australian Western Desert, Pt 9 - Spinning Hair String, Getting Water 1969

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Sources

  1. A-V Online (National Information Center for Educational Media). CD-ROM database of educational and documentary media, compiled and maintained by the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM). — title, year, creator, length, format, description
  2. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — sound, catalog record
  3. Wikidata · Q123303486 ↗ — country, credits

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