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Footage includes fruit bats, dancing, and food customs of Tongan villagers. Reformatted digital Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the J. Edward Hoffmeister Papers (MSS 0231, Box 4, Folder 2). Titles in film: University of Rochester - 'Flying Foxes' Huge Fruit Bats with wing spread of over 2 feet cling to sacred trees with heads down ; Tongan men dancing, dances last hours ; Views of a Tongan village ; Pigs are members of the family ; A Tongan diningroom - no forks or knives ; A Tongan schoolmaster and family "Eua, Tonga, circa 1926-1928." J. Edward Hoffmeister Papers. MSS 0231. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
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