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Amahuaca
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 5
Scope and Contents
In 1960-1961, anthropologists Robert Carneiro (AMNH curator) and Gertrude Dole filmed the Amahuaca Indians, who inhabit a remote area of Peru, as documentation for their field work. The film documents the daily life of the inhabitants of Chumichinia, an island in the Ucayali River, whose way of life has not been significantly changed by outside contact except for the addition of modern clothing to their traditional costume. The planting and tending of maize, pottery making, baking of corn...
Dates:
1960-1961
Weavers of the Andean highlands
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 288
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Myron I. Granger Archaeological Expedition to Peru and Ecuador, 1930. This film was made by Ronald L. Olson, AMNH archaeologist during the Myron I. Granger Archaeological Expedition to Peru and Ecuador. Granger sponsored the expedition for the AMNH. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (disbanded in 1951) approached Clark Wissler, an AMNH anthropologist, about securing motion pictures representing weaving, pottery making, and other such activities, and...
Dates:
1930, 1986
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- Body painting -- Peru -- Ucayli River Region 1
- Harvest festivals -- Peru 1
- Indian textile fabrics -- Peru -- Ucayli River Region 1
- Indian weapons -- Peru -- Ucalyi River Region 1
- Inuya River (Peru) 1
- Peru -- Social life and customs 1
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- Carneiro, Robert L. (Robert Leonard), 1927- 1
- Dole, Gertrude Evelyn, 1915-2001 1
- Granger, Myron I. 1
- Myron I. Granger Archaeological Expedition to Peru and Ecuador (1930) 1
- Olson, Ronald L. (Ronald Leroy), 1895-1979 1
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