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Originally titled "Roll 27" as written on the exterior of the film can. Also labelled "ANU untitled B&W with print."

Noted on film can "1x16mm black & white print"

Originally titled "30" as written on the exterior of the film box. Also noted "Christensen 100 plus x B&W."

Originally titled "29" as written on the exterior of the film box. Also noted "Christensen 100 plus x B&W."

Originally titled "28" as written on the exterior of the film box.

Originally titled "Making socket and handle for stone axe. Sharpening spear" as written on the exterior of the film box.

Originally titled "Making axe socket. Adzing scenes" as written on the exterior of the film box.

Originally titled "Old Roni man cutting handle & socket basic with steel axe. Also cutting & stripping fig bark" as written on the exterior of the film box.

Originally titled "Bark cloth" as written on the exterior of the film can. Additional notes not legible.

Originally titled "Making palm thread and sewing hut" as written on the exterior of the film box. Also noted "Bad focusing."

Originally titled "Funeral at Koibika" as written on the exterior of the film box. Also noted on box "Shows man with no finger also."

Originally titled "Clearing for house. Quarrying (throwing)" as written on the exterior of the film box.

Originally titled "Attaching axe & socket to handle" as written on the exterior of the film box.

Originally titled "Old Kopi man making axe handle & stripping rattan" as written on the exterior of the film box.

Originally titled "Axe polishing" as written on the exterior of the film box.

Originally titled "Pigs and head bashing, singeing and cooking pits" as written on the exterior of the film box. Also noted on box "exposed."

Originally titled "Cutting tree with stone axe, Manim" as written on the exterior of the film box. Additional handwritten notes present but illegible.

Originally titled "15" as written on the exterior of the film box.

Originally titled "Climbing up trees and cutting pandanus, & Wurup scenes" as written on the exterior of the film box.

Originally titled "Bipolar flaking" as written on the exterior of the film box.

Originally titled "Koipaka funeral and Manim creek" as written on the exterior of the film box. Also annotated "121" and "exposed."

Originally titled "Axe handle Abiamp" as written on the exterior of the film box.

Originally titled "Pandanus Cooking & Brisstle Cutting & Pig Butchering" as written on the exterior of the box. Also noted "Exposed D4."

Originally titled "9" as written on the exterior of the film can. Also marked "Christensen"

Originally titled "Chipping of Axe Blanks" as that was written on the exterior of the film can. Also noted in marker "Not too informative"

Originally titled "7" as written on the exterior of the film can.

Originally titled "6" as written on the exterior of the film can.

Originally titled "4" as written on the exterior of the film can.

Originally titled "4" as was written on the exterior of the film can.

Originally titled "1" as was written on the exterior of the film can.

Originally titled "2" as was written on the exterior of the film can.

Originally titled "3" as was written on the exterior of the film can.

These films were recorded by Christensen in the area of the Wahgi Valley of Papua New Guinea, near the Department of PreHistory's excavations at Kuk, led by Dr Jack Golson. These films depict traditional methods of tool making, cooking, farming, and hunting, as well as funerary rites and other rituals.

Films were numbered and arranged according to information recorded on film boxes and cans. Since being digitised and being able to be viewed, the original order is no longer helpful, and films should be grouped as follows:

Axe making:
ANUA 695-2 (part 1)
ANUA 695-9 (part 2)
ANUA 695-18 (part 3)
ANUA 695-20 (part 4)
ANUA 695-11 (part 5)
ANUA 695-1 (part 6)

Axe use:
ANUA 695-22 (part 1)
ANUA 695-26 (part 2)
ANUA 695-19 (part 3)
ANUA 695-3 (part 4)

Bark cloth:
ANUA 695-4 (part 1)
ANUA 695-24 (part 2)
ANUA 695-23 (part 3)

Stone core:
ANUA 695-6 (part 1)
ANUA 695-28 (part 2)

Pandanus:
ANUA 695-14 (part 1)
ANUA 695-10 (part 2)

Funeral:
ANUA 695-12 (part 1)
ANUA 695-27 (part 2)

John Doa's Funeral (pig killing)
ANUA 695-17 (part 1)
ANUA 695-15 (part 2)

Quarrying:
ANUA 695-21 (part 1)
ANUA 695-29 (part 2)

Axe Socket:
ANUA 695-30 (part 1)
ANUA 695-25 (part 2)

Film items ANUA 695-5 and 13 are concerned with stone flakes, but are not specified as being a part of a series. Film items ANUA 695-7, 16, and 35 involve the use of stone axes, but are not specified as being a part of a series. Item ANUA 695-8 includes film of sewing a pandanus mat, trimming an axeblank, and collecting flaking stone.