Film Studies of Traditional Indian Life in Brazil: Canela
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1986.13.32
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Anthropological Film Center (U.S.)
label: Collection Filmmaker
content: Schecter, Steven
label: Collection Anthropologist
content: Crocker, William H. (William Henry), 1924-
label: Collection Creator
content: Sorenson, E. Richard
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content: National Anthropological Film Center films of the Canela
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color sound; 39,540 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record was shot by Steven Schecter, employee of the National Human Studies Film Center, Smithsonian Institution, in collaboration with anthropologist William Crocker, of the Canela Indians, a Ge speaking tribe in northeastern Brazil. Research film project, directed by anthropologist E. Richard Sorenson, concentrates on interactions of children and infants with parents and siblings and children with other children in various settings. Footage also contains daily life activities including food preparation and distribution, doing bead work, hunting, preparing manioc, grooming, making and cooking meat pies, and collecting honey and a funeral.