A presentation by the Director of the Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology, Jerry Martin, about the museum's field collecting trip to the Asmat region of New Guinea Island. Record at the Lambda Alpha Symposium - April 7, 2007.
This video, filmed during the summer of 2007 by graduate student Troy Belford and L. D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology director Jerry Martin, shows the carving and painting of a Korowai shield. The Korowai live in the ...
This video describes the preparations and performance of the climax of an Asmat Bis cermony as practiced by the people of Papua, Indonesia - the Western Side of New Guinea Island.
This is an outtake from the Lives of Our Ancestors film. It is a much longer version of the speech given in that film and contains much ethnographic information about the preparations and process of a bisj ceremony.
Michael McGriff, Visiting & Distinguished Poet in Residence for WSU Dept. of English, reads from his books of poetry (Dismantling the Hills, The Sorrow Gondola, & To Build My Shadow a Fire).
President Beggs, faculty and students of the Department of Biological Sciences introduce the University's Biology Field Station Ninnescah Reserve as a great research and teaching resource for exploration and preservation ...