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CANADIAN FILM INSTITUTE / INSTITUT CANADIEN DU FILM

1975-0206

Film

1 of 1

1938

director/producer/photography, Lt. Colonel D.L.R. Lorimer

Ethnological documentary. The Hunza Valley in Northern India. Shows the people and the traditional agricultural methods for growing and harvesting wheat, oats, grapes, potatoes and methods of irrigation. Shows the Mir initiating the fertility rite by ploughing the first furrow of the year. Shots of people on horseback on way to Hunza; shows wildness of country; pan of Hunzavalley; a village; shows buildings; making a field in late winter; children driving sheep; ceremony of Mir, etc. Ploughing with primitive plough; irrigation; earthing spuds; poplar branches and leaves being carried for fodder; preparing threshing floor; barley and wheat harvest; oxen treading grain; winnowing; making wine; buckwheat harvest; kids carrying crops. <8mn>

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