Collection search - Extration of Salt at Tegguidan-N-Tessoun
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Record information – Brief Extration of Salt at Tegguidan-N-Tessoun
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1979/1980Item number (ISN):334722Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:INSTITUT FÜR DEN WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN FILMAccession:1983-0198Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1979/1980Production company:Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Prod.Production credit:editing, H.K. Galle; co-editing, D.G. Burkert; P. Fuchs; G. Göttler; D. Kleindienst-Andrée; E. FischerDescription:Documentary film on the ancient practice of salt extraction by inhabitants of Tegguidan-Tessoum, a dessert village in South Sahara, Niger. The film clearly demonstrates the entire operation required for this ancient method of extracting salt from saline earth, and the divisin of tasks allocated among the village men and women. Film sequences include a group of nomads gathered around the well to water their camels; the building of evaporation basins out of clay mud in the saline area; women making salt loaves ready to be carried by the caravan on to the markets. <23mn>Language:GermanNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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