"Robert Gardner Collection (Harvard Film Archive)" . . "Battles." . . "Contemporary Films, inc., New York." . . "Contemporary Films, Inc., New York." . "Film Study Center at Harvard University" . . "Studio 7 Arts (Firm)" . . "Netherlands New Guinea." . . "Irian Jaya (Indonésie)." . . "Religious beliefs." . . "Dokumentarfilm." . . "Harvard-Peabody New Guinea Expedition." . . . "Phoenix/BFA Films & Video." . . "Dani (peuple d'Indonésie) DVD." . . "Harvard University. Film Study Center." . . "Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology." . . "Dani (New Guinean people) Rites and ceremonies." . . "Ethnographic informants." . . "Dani." . . "Anthropology Research." . . "Tribal and national groups." . . "Travel." . . "Totenkult." . . "Harvard University. Department of Visual and Environmental Studies." . . "Dani (Peuple de Nouvelle-Guinée)" . . "Harvard-Peabody New Guinea Expedition (1961)" . . . "Provinz Papua." . . "Dani (New Guinean people) Social life and customs." . . "Dani's Warfare." . . "Dani (New Guinean people)" . . "Films documentaires Océanie DVD." . . "Papous." . . "Manners and customs." . . "Phoenix Learning Group." . . "Ethnologie." . . "Papua (Indonesia)" . . "Indonesien." . . "LA Media." . . "Etnología Indonesia." . . "Documentary films." . . "Rural population." . . "Nova Guinea" . . "Krieg." . . "McGraw-Hill Films." . . "Irian Jaya (Indonesia)." . . "Anthropologie visuelle DVD." . . "Daily life." . . "Ethnology New Guinea." . . "Film Study Center." . . "Nouvelle-Guinée." . . "Guerra i societat Nova Guinea." . . "Gender." . . . . . . . . . "Describes a photographic and ethnographic study sponsored by the Peabody Museum from Feb. 1961 to Nov. 1963 of the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem, high in the mountains of West New Guinea. Examines the customs and primitive warfare of the Dani."@en . "Describes a photographic and ethnographic study sponsored by the Peabody Museum from Feb. 1961 to Nov. 1963 of the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem, high in the mountains of West New Guinea. Examines the customs and primitive warfare of the Dani." . . . "An interpretation of the life and customs of the Dani people of Central West Irian, who exist in continuous warfare between neighbouring villages, reduced to ritualised alternating attacks. Filmed from February 1961 to November 1963." . . . . "Describes a photographic and ethnographic study which was sponsored by the Peabody Museum from February 1961 to November 1963 of the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem, high in the montains of western New Guinea."@en . "Documentaries and factual works" . . "Streaming video" . . . . . . . . . . "Describes a photographic and ethnographic study, which was sponsored by the Peabody Museum from Feb. 1961 to Nov. 1963, of the Dani a People dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem high in the Mountains of Western New Guinea." . . . . . . "Documentary films"@en . "Documentary films" . "Presents an ethnographic cross section of the life and customs of the Dani people who live in the Baliem Valley of West New Guinea. This study was sponsored by the Peabody Museum." . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Presents an ethnographic cross section of the life and customs of the Dani people who live in the Baliem Valley of West New Guinea. It portrays their elaborate system of intertribal warfare and revenge, and their belief that people, because they are like birds, must die."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Documentary on the Dani people of New Guinea, filmed during the Peabody Museum expedition to the Baliem Valley in West New Guinea in 1962, recording their lives and beliefs."@en . . . . . "Describes a photographic and ethnographic study running from Feb. 1961 to Nov. 1963 of the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem, high in the mountains of West New Guinea."@en . "Describes a photographic and ethnographic study running from Feb. 1961 to Nov. 1963 of the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem, high in the mountains of West New Guinea." . . . . . . . . . . . "Nonfiction films"@en . "Documents the neolithic Dani tribe of the Baliem Valley of West New Guinea, to whom unceasing battles with neighboring tribes give life meaning. The climax of the film is the funeral of a child killed by the enemy." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Video recordings"@en . . . "Presents an ethnographic cross section of the life and customs of the Dani people who live in the Baliem Valley of West New Guinea. Records actual events that occurred during the Harvard Expedition to the Baliem in 1962." . . . . "Features" . . . . . . . "Encoded moving images"@en . "Anthropological works" . . "Anthropological works"@en . . . . . . . "Summary: A remarkable documentary and one of the most important anthropological film studies ever made. It deals with the Dani, a people who live in a remote corner of the Baliem Valley, high in the mountains of western New Guinea. They were the subject of an intensive ethnographic study sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. The film shows that the Dani have a classic neolithic culture, but are exceptional in having focussed their energies and based their values on an elaborate system of inter-tribal warfare and revenge. (See also Peter Mattiessen's book Ùnder the mountain wall'.) Awards: International Film Festivals, Florence and Melbourne; American Film Festival, New York; Robert J. Flaherty Award." . "Presents an ethnographic cross section of the life and customs of the Dani people who live in the Baliem Valley of West New Guinea. Dead birds is a term for a person killed by the enemy which is any neighbouring group of the Dani clan who engage in continual formal battles and less frequent but more deadly raids against one another. Each death must be revenged to appease the ghosts of the slain. Warriors also decorate themselves with feathers and bird-like markings as part of a belief system that the clan chose to live briefly like birds rather than forever like the serpent."@en . . . . . . . . "Presents an ethnographic cross section of the life and customs of the Dani people who live in the Baliem Valley of West New Guinea, performed from February 1961 to November 1963."@en . "Independent films"@en . . . . . "Videocassettes"@en . . . . . . . . . "Dead birds (Motion picture)" . "Dead birds" . "Dead birds"@en . . "Con Muy Alto Riesgo" . . "Dead Birds"@en . "Dead Birds" . . "Film of the Dani Tribe in the Baliem Valley, West New Guinea, made during the Peabody Museum of Harvard University Expedition to the Baliem in 1962. Portrays their elaborate system of inter-tribal warfare and revenge, and their belief that people, because they are like birds, must die."@en . . "SUMMARY: A study of the life and customs of a tribe living in a remote corner of the Baliem Valley in the central mountains of West Irian. A tribe which exists in continuous warfare with neighbouring villages. Film made from footage of actual events photographed during the Peabody Museum expedition in 1962."@en . . "A film about the life and customs of the Dani, a primitive people who live in the Grand Valley of the Baliem in the mountains of Western New Guinea." . "Describes a photographic and ethnographic study which was sponsored by the Peabody Museum from February 1961 to November 1963 of the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem, high in the mountains of western New Guinea."@en . . "Describes a photographic and ethnographic study which was sponsored by the Peabody Museum from February 1961 to November 1963 of the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem, high in the mountains of western New Guinea." . . . . "Ethnographic films"@en . "This film chronicles the two seasons the Harvard-Peabody New Guinea Expedition spent with the Dugum Dani (Dani) in the Kurelu area of the Baliem Valley, Dutch New Guinea (now Irian Jaya, Indonesia). Its purpose was to record the Kurelu wars, rituals, and daily life, and show a people trapped in an avenge-reprisal system. The film portrays the stories of Weaklekek, a warrior, and Tukum, a tender of pigs, their enemies and their friends. Battles, mourning cermonies and victory celebrations are depicted. Traditional dwellings, dress and battle regalia are also shown."@en . . "Ethnographic films" . . . "Robert Gardner's classic ethnographic study of the Dani people of western New Guinea, a tribe for whom warfare is a daily activity. Blue Ribbon winner, American Film Festival." . . . . "Presents and ethnographic cross section of the life and customs of the Dani people who life in the Baliem Valley of West Guinea, filmed from February 1961 to November 1963."@en . . . . "A remarkable documentary and one of the most important anthropological film studies ever made. From February 1961 to November 1963, an expedition sponsored by the Peabody Museum carried out a photographic and ethnographic study of the DugumDani (Dani), a people living in the Kurelu area of the Baliem Valley, Dutch New Guinea (now Irian Jaya, Indonesia). The film was made by Robert Gardner in 1961, before the Baliem Valley was pacified by the Dutch government and before the valley's stone age society was irrevocably changed. Dead Birds is a meditation on the neolithic culture of the Dani, who lived according to an elaborate system of inter-tribal warfare and revenge.The film focuses on Weyak, a farmer and warrior, and Pua, a young swineherd, and follows them through the events of Dani life: agriculture, salt collection, ritualized warfare, raids, and funeral ceremonies. \"Dead Birds has a meaning which is both immediate and allegorical. In the Dani language it refers to the weapons and ornaments recovered in battle. Its other more poetic meaning comes from the Dani belief that people, because they are like birds, must die.\" Robert Gardner"@en . . "Describes a photographic and ethnographic study which was sponsored by the Peabody Museum from 1961 to 1963 of the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem, high in the mountains of West New Guinea."@en . . . . . . . "Films ethnographiques" . . . . . . . "Journal filmé d'une expédition anthropologique, commanditée par le Peabody Museum, entre février 1961 et novembre 1963 chez les Dani, dans la vallée de Beliem en Nouvelle-Guinée. Présentation des lieux, des personnes et de leur mode de vie. Description du rôle des guerres rituelles et illustration de plusieurs combats. Comporte des séquences de rites funéraires filmées pour un jeune garçon tué au combat, ainsi que des séquences de la vengeance sur l'ennemi." . . "Feature films"@en . . . . . . . . . "Documentals (Films)" . . "Presents an ethnographic cross section of the life and customs of the Dani people who live in the Baliem Valley of West New Guinea." . "Presents an ethnographic cross section of the life and customs of the Dani people who live in the Baliem Valley of West New Guinea."@en . . . . "Describes a photographic and ethnographic study which was sponsored by the Peabody Museum from Feb. 1961 to Nov. 1963 of the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem, high in the mountains of West New Guinea."@en . . . . . . . . . "Dead birds (Motion picture : 1965)"@en . . . "A cinematographic interpretation of the life of a group of Grand Valley Dani, who are mountain Papuans in West New Guinea (Irian Barat, Indonesia), studied by the Harvard-Peabody Expedition (1961-1963). This film was made by Gardner in 1961, before the area was pacified by the Dutch government. The film focuses on Weyak, the farmer and warrior, and on Pua, the young swineherd, following them through the events of Dani life : sweet potato horticulture, pig keeping, salt winning, battles, raids, and ceremonies." . "A photographic and ethnographic study which was sponsored by the Peabody Museum, from February 1961 to November 1963, of the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem, high in the mountains of western New Guinea."@en . "Videos (VHS)" . . . "Dead Birds is a film about the Dani, a primitive people who live in the Grand Valley of the Baliem in the mountains of Western New Guinea. It records actual events that occurred during the Harvard Expedition to the Baliem in 1962."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "\"A cinematographic interpretation of the life of a group of Grand Valley Dani, who are mountain Papuans in West New Guinea (Irian Barat, Indonesia), studied by the Harvard-Peabody Expedition (1961-1963). This film was made by Gardner in 1961, before the area was pacified by the Dutch government. The film focuses on Weyak, the farmer and warrior, and on Pua, the young swineherd, following them through the events of Dani life: sweet potato horticulture, pig keeping, salt winning, battles, raids, and ceremonies.\" Karl G. Heider."@en . . . . "Journal filmé d'une expédition anthropologique commanditée par le Peabody Museum entre fév. 1961 et nov. 1963 chez les Dani, dans la vallée de Beliem en Nouvelle-Guinée. Présentation des lieux, des personnes et de leur mode de vie. Description du rôle des guerres rituelles et illustration de plusieurs combats. Rites funéraires pour un jeune garçon tué et vengeance sur l'ennemi." . "Langues dani Indonésie Irian Jaya (Indonésie) DVD." . . "CRM Films." . . "Fehde." . . "Konflikt." . . "Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts." . . "Blutrache." . . "Guerra primitiva Estudis transculturals." . . "Contemporary Films." . . "New Guinea." . . "New Guinea" . . . "Visual Education Centre." . .