Below you can click on the YouTube version of my film about the Ho people of Jharkhand.

I shot this film while doing fieldwork for eighteen months from 1972-4.  It was filmed on a now primitive 16mm Bolex camera.  My partner, Valerie, recorded the sound on a Tandberg synchable recorder.  It was edited by my good friend Gregory Harris.

It has never been televised.  It has been frequently screened as an educational  film and is much  admired by the Ho themselves as a valuable record of their past way-of-life.

The Ho call themselves ‘Miyad mandi chaturenko‘ meaning ‘the people of one rice-pot’.  Their rice pot is kept in their sacred inner kitchen room, where it should not be seen or glanced by anyone of a different clan, as it contains the spirit of their ancestors.

I hope you find it enjoyable and interesting, even though this old print of the film is far from high quality and has suffered from age.