| PAINTED INDIANS Native Brazilian Wedding Customs | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6798 |
| Catalog #: | 446486 | |
| Clip Number: | 446486-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 298 | |
| Timecode: | 01:24:12 - 01:25:35 | |
| Location: | Brazil | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CULTURAL GROUPS/NATIVE AMERICANS: South America FASHION: Ethnic / Cultural FASHION: Wedding LOCATIONS/SOUTH AMERICA: Brazil WEDDINGS: Traditions | |
| Description: | PAINTED INDIANS Anthropological film investigating the ritual and lifestyle of tribes in Brazil. Brazil WS looking across river to village of small houses. MCU Native South American teenage boy wearing round feather headdress, holding bow & feathers (darts?); pan down to show stripes painted across his chest. MLS the boy walks through forest carrying turkey he has killed; he brings it to an elder sitting in FG. The elder stands, pulls out 2 feathers and gives them to the boy. (Titles explain that this is a wedding proposal ritual between the young man and his prospective father-in-law. CU young girl w/ serious expression, wearing over-one-shoulder garment of printed fabric, nose rings; title says that this is the 12-year-old bride. MCU pan on row of men and boys, all wearing identical circular headdresses; 2 playing harmonicas. MCU bare foot stomping; there is a bunch of nutshells or something like it tied around ankle. Another foot stomping. MLS the row of guys marching to and fro in clearing in the jungle; title says this ritual is to chase away evil spirits. rituals, weddings, Native Americans, Amazon, Brazil, South America, rain forest, South American Indians, customs, ethnic groups | |
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