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Title Solomon Islands. Volo Momoru : the Turtle Net / [producer, Don Murray ; director, Graham Chase]
Published Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, 1982

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Description 1 online resource (26 min.)
Summary Turtles are good food. Turtle shell is also prized for trading, for making combs and jewellery and for decorating carvings. On the island of Santa Isabel (Bugotu) in the Solomon Islands, Andrew Kilgy is one of the last men who know how to weave the traditional net for catching turtles. Over the course of a week, the net is woven and then after being named and blessed by the village custom priest, the men paddle out to sea in their canoes to try their luck
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed September 19, 2016)
In English
Subject Solomon Islanders -- Social life and customs.
Fishing nets -- Solomon Islands.
SUBJECT Melanesia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78093659
Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78093659 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
Subject Fishing nets.
Manners and customs.
Solomon Islanders -- Social life and customs.
SUBJECT Solomon Islands. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78093659
Solomon Islands -- Social life and customs
Subject Solomon Islands.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Form Streaming video
Author Murray, Don, producer
Chase, Graham, director
Film Australia (Organization), production company.