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Description

1. 1 streaming video file (NTSC) (7 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

1. Filmed in the village of Sara. Women, later joined by young men, move anticlockwise around the nugāra, a cylindrical double membrane drum. The women, grouped according to their social status, advance with small steps, swinging their arms and plaits. The men carry long millet stems rather than the lances usually borne by men in this dance.

Series statement

1. Encyclopaedia cinematographica ; E 1365

Subject

1. Dance -- Sudan.

Call number

1. *MGZIDF 1631

Language

1. German

Note

1. Filmed in 1964. Published and distributed by the Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film, Göttingen, Germany.
2. English title: Omar Arabs (Central Sudan, Southern Wadai); Recreational dance "am haraba." For a descriptive pamphlet in German, with English summary, see: *MGS (General) Encyclopaedia cinematographica.

Access (note)

1. Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.

Local note

1. Former call number: *MGZIC 9-2329

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Local subject

1. Motion pictures. Omar-Araber (Zentralsudan, Süd-Wadai)

Local subject

1. Weapon dances.