FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Solomon Islands elder teaching village men the craft of traditional turtle net making. Elder instructing in native language. Voice over in English. Men eating and drinking during instruction. Man cutting lengths of rods. GS children, young girl playing ukelele. CUs rubbing sticks for fire, building fire, burning holes in rod. Elder in body paint and decorated visor threading net onto rods. Villagers launching dugout canoe into water, pagan priest blessing net, floats attached to net, net loaded into canoe. Men paddle to sea, placing net near turtle, underwater view of men chasing turtle into net and into canoe. MS man blowing into conch shell, singing as they row home in sunset.