TYPICAL DAY IN THE LIFE OF A KUANYAMA FAMILY

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 12507).

Synopsis

INTEREST.

r.1 Caption explaining that the householder has two wives. At sunrise, he greets each wife in turn outside her sleeping hut. Natives warm themselves around a fire. The cows are milked, some of the milk is poured into a bowl for the family's use, the rest into a butter making gourd (72). Boys skin a dead goat (84). Boys play a game with nuts and sand (106). The cattle are let out to pasture (148). The herdsboy sharpens the horns of a toy bull (157). Children play a clapping game (166). Boys play with their toy bulls, others have an archery contest (202). Calves and goats are let out to pasture (217). The older wife fetches water (250). A herdsman brings in a hare he has clubbed (257). Dogs are given water, pumpkin seed is thrown to the fowls (285). Porridge and chicken is prepared for the midday meal, the family and guests eat the meal (384). [blank film] (390).

r.2 Women prepare flour from millet grain (414), dried fish is put to soak for the evening meal (419), grain stored in large containers (426), native huts (445), clay is dampened and beaten for recementing the floor of a hut (452), the faster offers beer to his family (464), captions explaining the men's responsibilities (475), man chopping tree for firewood (485), snake killed in the bush (489), mother and daughter collect light firewood and pick wild fruits (523), baby fed by the older sister (540), child carrying a palmnut doll on her back (549), nuts cracked (555), millet is put to germinate for beer-making and meat chopped (570), goats and cattle are driven home at dust, chickens roosting (588). (595 ft).

 

Titles

  • TYPICAL DAY IN THE LIFE OF A KUANYAMA FAMILY
 

Technical Data

Year:
1937
Colour:
Black/White
Sound:
Silent
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
Great Britain
Director
POWELL-COTTON, P.H.G.
 

Countries