Hunting Pre-history on Panama's Unknown North Coast
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1991.16.7
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
label: Collection Creator
content: Stewart, Richard H. (Richard Hewett), 1901-2004
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content: Matthew Stirling collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: u Film reels (64 minutes, color silent; 2596 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1945
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 documents a National Geographic Society/Smithsonian Institution expedition to Panama led by Stirling, director of the Bureau of American Ethnography. Film follows the expedition from Panama City to archeological sites in the countryside. Footage includes murals depicting pre-Columbian life; coastal landscape; countryside; making pottery using coil technique; flora; village women using large mortar and pestle; carving gourd; outlining petroglyphs in chalk; excavating archeological sites; unearthing pottery, pottery figurines, large cache of pottery "ladles," and shards; and sorting and assembling pottery shards.