| Location: | Irian Jaya / West Papua |
| Subject: | Art and artists; carving |
| Length: | 27 minutes |
| Format: | 16mm; video |
| Hue: | Color |
| Year Released: | 1964 |
| Series: | |
| Director: | Adriaan Gerbrands |
| Producer: | Stichting Film En Wetenschap |
| Distributor: | RAI (rental in UK) |
| Library Code: | UHM AV/C VIDEOTAPE 6341 |
| Description: | Matjemosh is a woodcarver of the Asmat tribe on the southwest coast of New Guinea. His village is Amanamkai. With stone hammer and iron chisel he carves wooden figures and decorates bamboo signal horns of the kind his ancestors used to blow on head-hunting raids. Matjemosh's wife comforts him as he completes a drum, polishing it with a shell. |
| Record No: | 1195 |
| Resources: | Distributors's List |
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