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Dokwaza : last of the African ironmasters / directed by Nicholas David and Yves Le Bléis ; script, Nicholas David.
Penn Museum Library - Desk DVD TN703 .D65 1988
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iron--Metallurgy--History.
- Iron.
- Iron--Metallurgy.
- History.
- Industries, Primitive--Cameroon--Mandar Highlands.
- Industries, Primitive.
- Industries--Cameroon--Mandar Highlands.
- Industries.
- Mafa (African people)--Industries.
- Mafa (African people).
- Cameroon.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Ethnographic films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Last of the African ironmasters
- Place of Publication:
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary, Dept. of Communications Media, [1988]
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC; may not play in all players.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Shows the physical and spiritual process of smelting and forging iron as performed in 1986 by the Mafa people in the Mandar Highlands of North Cameroon, from building a furnace of stone and daub to the final production of an iron hoe.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Ron Robertson.
- Credits:
- Camera, Henri Auge.
- Notes:
- Videodisc copy of a videotape originally produced in 1988.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 72801277
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