Bamboo harvesting in Mazatenango
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content: Bamboo Harvesting films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound print; 700 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1972
container: label: Container
content: Item 2017.2.3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Man directing unloading of boxes (boxes read: "Instituto Agropecuario nac. Mazatenago"). Men in pith helmets ride into bamboo forest on horses, then appear to consult with each other. Some harvesting. Aerials and ground-level landscapes; following man on riverboat to a bamboo logging camp with larger group of men, with shots of bamboo in situ and harvested as well as harvesting process, including what appears to be stripping the wood.

In English (on can): "Bug in BA[…?], Basket making, some tools, brooms." In English: "[Unedited] Gunga Din goes to Mazaenago[?] to propagate bamboo via clump division by dynamite & by single branch cuttings." On reel: "Rio dynamite expert [table?]."