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Endemic goitre
Objectcode
FI/1200/11
Film shots of an inspection tour by a medical team looking for epidemic goitre in the mountain plateau of New Guinea [Baliem] from December 1961 to July 1962 in cooperation with TNO (the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) and the Leiden University.
Contents
Path alongside a mountain slope. One of the researchers examining patients in a village. Papuans with goitre are being separated and palpated by a physician. Man makes a girl climbing a stone, puts a sign with a number around her neck and takes a picture. Woman with goitre carrying a baby on her shoulder. The baby is paralysed. Man opens his mouth. Papua children, walking poorly. Boys are made to build towers with rings to test their intelligence. Doctor with potion shows patient with goitre how to drink the medicine. Woman being irradiated [?]. Blood being taken from woman. Tilling soil by dozens of Papuans. Plane in the air. The Dutchmen leaving the village and going to the aircraft. Plane taking off.
Title
Endemic goitre
Year
1960

Technical detail

Film type
Film report
Black and white
Silent

Thesaurus terms

Cultural
Cultural origin » Papua » Central Highlands
Geographic
Geographical term » Papua » Division Hollandia » Explorationressort Eastern Highlands » Baliem