Brazil, Upper Purus (Tucurina) -- Treatment of the Sick by Witch Doctors
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.909; E00075
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (2 minutes, color silent, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1950
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: Edited film: two witch doctors in tukurime masks perform a dance while accompanied by women. Afterwards they treat some patients by a ritual examination of the contagious matter.
Legacy Keywords: Brazil ; Brazil, Upper Purus ; South America; Tucurina