Digging Up the Dead in Madagascar
(1963),
Sarajane Archdeacon's documentary on the Famadihana, the exhumation ceremony honoring ancestors
(2002 Federal Grants).
Georgia Sea Island Singers
(1964),
performances of the renowned gospel group filmed by Beth Lomax Hawes
(2023 Federal Grants).
Herero of Ngamiland
(1953),
Gordon Gibson’s ethnographic study of a pastoral people in northwest Botswana
(2008 Federal Grants).
Herskovits Collection
(1930–34),
footage taken in Georgia's Sea Islands, Haiti, and West Africa by Melville J. Herskovits to explore the links between African and New World cultures
(Treasures of American Film Archives).
Luther Metke at 94
(1980),
Oscar-nominated profile by ethnobiographer Jorge Preloran of a master log-cabin builder in Oregon
(2009 Federal Grants).
Pahs and Papas
(1921),
Outing Magazine travel short—part adventure story and part ethnographic portrait—containing some of the earliest scenes of the New Zealand Maori on film
(1999 Partnership Grants).
Philippines Footage
(1930s),
three ethnographic films by American businessman and amateur photographer Whipple S. Hall, including documentation of the peoples of Luzon
(2000 Federal Grants).
Pizza Pizza Daddy-O
(1967),
ethnographic film by Bess Lomax Hawes on playground singing games played by a group of African American fourth-grade girls in Los Angeles
(2023 Federal Grants).
Say Old Man Can You Play the Fiddle
(1973),
documentation by Beth Lomax Hawes of performances by bluegrass fiddler Earl Collins
(2023 Federal Grants).
Songs of the Southern States
(1926),
one-reeler by James A. Fitzpatrick depicting plantation life during the Civil War
(2001 Federal Grants).
Walter Link Collection
(1928–34),
footage from the Dutch East Indies taken by Standard Oil geologist Walter Link
(2005 Federal Grants).
A Weave of Time
(1986),
portrait of four generations of a Navajo family
(2011 Federal Grants).