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The Potters of Buur Heybe Somalia / a video by Tara Belkin ; [written and produced by Tara Belkin in collaboration with Steven Brandt].
Penn Museum Library - Desk DVD NK4176.9.S62 B88 2006 DVD + booklet
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Archaeological methods & practice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pottery--Somalia--Buur Heybe.
- Pottery, African.
- Potters--Somalia--Buur Heybe.
- Manners and customs.
- Potters.
- Pottery.
- Somalia--Social life and customs.
- Somalia.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Educational films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([4] pages : 19 cm).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2006]
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- In a small village in southern Somalia, only the men make pottery, skillfully coordinating their hands and feet. But, like their ancestors, the women mine the clay. This program reveals the entire process of turning rough soil into beautifully decorated pottery, and describes the role of pottery in the economy of the village.
- Participant:
- Narration by Surer Noor.
- Credits:
- Editor, Steven Brandt.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary short motion picture produced in 1990.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1598741187
- 9781598741186
- OCLC:
- 76174785
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