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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
American Museum of Natural History oral history collection, 1975-2002.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A45O73
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1975 - 2002
Filtered By
- Names: Carneiro, Robert L. (Robert Leonard), 1927- X
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- Amahuaca Indians -- Peru -- Inuya River Region -- Agriculture 1
- Amahuaca Indians -- Peru -- Social life and customs 1
- Amahuaca Indians -- Peru -- Ucayli River Region -- Agriculture 1
- Body painting -- Peru -- Ucayli River Region 1
- Film Collection 1
- Harvest festivals -- Peru 1
- Indian textile fabrics -- Peru -- Ucayli River Region 1
- Indian weapons -- Peru -- Ucalyi River Region 1
- Inuya River (Peru) 1
- Manuscript Collection 1
- Moving Images 1
- Ucayli River (Peru) 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Amadon, Dean 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Library Services 1
- Anderson, Sydney, 1927- 1
- Atz, James W. 1
- Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 1
- Dole, Gertrude Evelyn, 1915-2001 1
- Freed, Stanley A. 1
- Gardiner, Henry, 1916- 1
- Lanyon, Wesley E. 1
- Lecroy, Mary 1
- Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 1
- McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
- Myers, Charles W. 1
- Newell, Norman Dennis, 1909-2005 1
- Platnick, Norman I. 1
- Prinz, Martin 1
- Rozen, Jerome George, 1928- 1
- Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 1
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
- Tedford, Richard H. 1 ∧ less
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