Parima: Frontieras do Brasil
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1994.1.1
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content: Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro videos
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Video recording (24 minutes, black-and-white silent)
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content: circa 1940-1950
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Video recordings
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content: Edited film of a border patrol expedition to the mountainous region along the northern border of Brazil known as Parima. Film includes scenes of the steamship going up the Oiapoque River which divides French Guiana from Brazil; Santo Antonio Village and military outpost; encounters with Saramacca people; Saint Georges, French Guiana; Clevelandia, a colonial agricultural outpost in Brazil; travel by canoe; river area inhabitants spear fishing and gathering fruit; Amapa Village; and traveling up the Amazon River to the Rio Negro and then to the Rio Mar (Rio Branco). Creator: Reis, Thomas Major