Dani Sweet Potatoes

A study of the sophisticated process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Dani The film follows the Dani sweet potato cycle from clearing off the old brush and weeds from a fallow field to planting harvesting cooking and eating At that time the Dani had the simplest of tools long pointed wooden poles used as digging sticks that are hardened in the fire and soaked in water and they still used their stonebladed adzes By now most Dani use steel shovels axes and bush knives and make stone adzes only for the tourist trade