William E. Carter film of an Aymara village, Bolivia
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1986.11.7
name: label: Creator
content: Carter, William E., 1927-1983
place: label: Place
content: South America
label: Place
content: Bolivia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred from the National Anthropological Archives in 1986.
creator: label: Creator
content: Carter, William E., 1927-1983
culture: label: Culture
content: Aymara [Chulumani]
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (49 minutes, color silent; 1400 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1960-1961
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Willian E. Carter Footage of Aymara Village, Bolivia."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1986.11E
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage documenting various aspects of daily life and ceremonial activities in an Aymara altiplano village, Igavi Province, Bolivia. Documentation includes: an Aymara wedding with church service and festivities; festival activities during Carnival which includes various costumed and masked-dance traditions (e.g., Morenda dancers) performed in the village plaza; a funeral service and burial; and various economic and subsistence activities including brickmaking, plowing, and harvesting of grain. Footage forms part of the William Earl Carter Papers in the National Anthropological Archives.

Legacy Keywords: Dance morenda Carnival Bolivia ; Weddings Aymara Bolivia ; Carnival Bolivia ; Funerals mortuary practices Aymara Bolivia

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the William Earl Carter papers.