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Title Crook hat and camphoo.

Publication Info. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, 22 min.) : digital, stereo, sound, color.
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Series The CAAMA collection
CAAMA collection.
Note Please be aware that viewing this streamed video off-campus may affect your download limits.
Credits Writer-Director - David Tranter ; Photography - Allan Collins ; Sound Recording - Vance Glynn ; Editor - Dena Curtis ; Music - Frank Yamma ; Translations - David Moore.
Cast Featuring Donald Crook Hat,Thompson Kemarre and Reggie Camphoo Pwerl.
Event Originally produced by Ronin Films in 2009.
Summary Crook Hat and Camphoo are Alyawarra elders, from central Australia, who are concerned about the survival of traditional skills and culture. As Crook Hat says at the beginning of this outstanding film: “We are telling the old peoples way. Its not just our way. We are trying to teach others what we have learnt.” In this film, Crook Hat and Camphoo pass on knowledge and skills relating to the making of spears and spear-throwers (woomeras). The two elders go into the bush to find suitable tree branches for making spears and spear-heads, and use fire to straighten the branches. After peeling the bark and smoothing the wood, they use sinew from a kangaroo and tree resin to fasten the spear-head to the spear. Other wood is used for the spear-thrower or woomera, and again they use plant resin to make a comfortable grip for the hunter. As they make their spears and woomeras, Crook Hat and Camphoo reflect on the ingenuity of the old ways, and remember being taught by their fathers. Their need to pass on their knowledge is deeply felt and affects everything they do. This short film is a moving and eloquent reflection on the transfer of knowledge from elders to a new generation of Aboriginal people and to a wider world. --Kanopy.
Original Version Originally produced Alice Springs, N.T., CAAMA ; Marcom Projects [distributor], 2006.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Spears -- Australia -- Central Australia.
Spears -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians -- Implements -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Aboriginal Australians -- Identity.
Weapons, Aboriginal Australian.
Added Author Tranter, David.
Kemarre, Donald Thompson.
Pwerl, Reggie Camphoo.
Kanopy (Firm)
Added Title Crook hat & camphoo
Music No. 1042442 Kanopy
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