Contact sheet containing 29 images. ENVELOPE TEXT: Vietnam - Medcap - America / Vietnam relation (Montagnards) - Sgt Gerald Bush - strip one. NOTES ON CONTACT SHEET: Medcap pix - sheet one - Frame 2: Sgt Gerald Bush (left) and Doc Green sip from the ceremonial Montagnard rice wine jugs. 3 thru 11: Montagnard tribesmen camp around a tribal graveyard in celebration of the closing of a grave. Montagnards are buried in a common grave, which is ceremonially closed every so often. At the time of the closing of the grave, all the tribesmen are released from any obligation to the dead -- husbands and wives may remarry, money is no longer owed, etc. A big celebration is held for a week or more on the gravesite. 12: Doc Green and Bush go to visit one of their patients in a Montagnard house. 13, 14: Montagnards welcome the medics inside the house with a rice wine ceremony. 15, 16: An old Jarai tribesman. He wears a loincloth and a US Army AG44 blouse. 19: Street in Montagnard village.
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Collection StructureOverseas Weekly photographs
> Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 15029
Item Title
Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 15029
Collection TitleOverseas Weekly photographs
Publisher
Overseas Weekly
Date Created1967/1971?
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FormatStill Image
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contact sheets
Record Number2014c35.502
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