Journey to Chinale

Duration: 0:33:00

Year Published: 1969

Creator: CRM/McGraw-Hill Films | Waia Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 1Nov69 · MP20549 (Jul-Dec 1970) Copyright holder: Willard Baldwin d.b.a. Waica Films

Description: Covers many aspects of the life of the Carib-speaking Oyanas Indians, a tribe from the tropical forest of the Amazon. Includes canoe and house building, hunting, fishing with bow and arrow, pottery making, weaving, shamanistic chanting, curing, and the feast and ritual ordeal of the Maraki. Observes the superstitions of mountain gods and people's homage to the gods for safe passage along the mountain trails., This ethnographic film tells the story of an Indian family who, as the only survivors of an epidemic, leave their village in Brazil and make a voyage through the forest, down an unknown river to join their kinsmen in Surinam.

Complete Record: , This ethnographic film tells the story of an Indian family who, as the only survivors of an epidemic, leave their village in Brazil and make a voyage through the forest, down an unknown river to join their kinsmen in Surinam., Covers many aspects of the life of the Carib-speaking Oyanas Indians, a tribe from the tropical forest of the Amazon. Includes canoe and house building, hunting, fishing with bow and arrow, pottery making, weaving, shamanistic chanting, curing, and the feast and ritual ordeal of the Maraki. Observes the superstitions of mountain gods and people's homage to the gods for safe passage along the mountain trails.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.