Full film record shot among the Ifugao, northern Luzon, while Maher was a research associate at the Philippine National Museum. Footage was produced in the course of a project which combined archeology and ethnology to reconstruct the evolution of Ifugao culture. Documentation of Ifugao agricultural and ceremonial activities includes: the rice terraces of Banaue, spading and planting of rice fields, transplanting and pounding rice, Banaue market, Himong (Ifugao ceremony) including a feast and burial, a wedding dance, and preparations for Bonc (Ifuago ritual) near Banaue. Also included is miscellaneous footage of dancers and canoes shot in and around Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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HSFA 1988.20.1
Previously titled "Robert Maher's Footage of the Philippines ca. 1973."
Received from the National Anthropological Archives in 1988.
The National Anthropoligcal Archives holds the Robert Francis Maher papers.
Robert Maher films of the Philippines, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution