John Collier Jr. film of Hacienda Vicos
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1988.12.1
name: label: Creator
content: Collier, John, Jr., 1913-1992
place: label: Place
content: South America
label: Place
content: Peru
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from John Collier, Jr. in 1988.
creator: label: Creator
content: Collier, John, Jr., 1913-1992
culture: label: Culture
content: Quechua
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Videocassettes (U-matic) (1 hour 41 minutes, black-and-white color silent)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1954-1955
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Hacienda Vicos 1954-1955."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1988.12
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Videocassettes (u-matic)
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 shot in Peru of life in Hacienda Vicos. Scenes depict agricultural activities (breaking ground with oxen and wooden plows and hoeing and digging potatoes), panoptic views of high valley, making mud bricks for house construction, school grounds and classroom scenes, mestizo women spinning wool while men work the fields, man setting up and operating a loom, domestic activities with women and children, a woman curer ministering to sick patient and divining from the entrails of a guinea pig, ceremonial activities around the plaza of local church, and crowds and religious festival activity--a procession with image of the Virgin Mary. Footage was shot in association with a Cornell University project directed by Allan Holmberg to study the transformation of a colonial hacienda into a free community.

Supplementary materials: 3

Agriculture ox and plow Peru ; Cultivation potatoes Peru ; Funerals processions coffins Peru ; Tools hoes Peru ; Harvests potatoes Peru ; Planting potatoes Peru ; Bricks construction of Peru ; Houses construction of Peru ; Schools activities in Peru ; Meals school children Peru ; Food preparation schools Peru ; Wool spinning Peru ; Division of labor sexual Peru ; Breastfeeding Quechua Peru ; Looms operation of Quechua Peru ; Curing curandera Quechua Peru ; Curers curandera Peru ; Divination guinea pig entrals curandera Peru ; Musical instruments drums flutes violins Peru ; Churches ceremonies processions Peru ; Costumes ceremonies "Indians" Peru ; Statues Virgin Mary ceremony Peru ; Dance ceremony Peru ; Language and culture


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