Tapirapé Indians -- Clothing
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Brazilian primitives
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 19
Scope and Contents
In 1953 the AMNH hired filmmaker Victor J. Jurgens to make the first two films (Brazilian Primitives and Guatemala) in a projected series of twenty-four documentaries intended to record vanishing cultures. Neither the films nor the series was completed. The three reels of unedited footage for Brazilian Primitives contain important documentation of Brazilian tribes in the process of change: the Tapirape Indians of central Brazil and an unidentified tribe from the upper Xingu (probably the...
Dates:
1955
