Jungle Terror
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1994.8.2
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Davis, Hassoldt, 1907-1959
label: Collection Creator
content: Davis, Ruth
setName: label: See more items in
content: Hassoldt and Ruth S. Davis films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (20 minutes, color silent; 720 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1949
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 produced by Warner Brothers documents expedition made by Hassoldt and Ruth Davis inland from St. Laurent, French Guiana to theTumac Humac mountains on the Brazilian border.  Expedition was accompanied by Boni guides and paddlers. The film shows trip up river to the territory of the Roucouyenne (Rucuyen) where a wasp torture ceremony is staged for the expedition party.  Also filmed were the abandoned penal colony of Devil's Island and former prisoners.

Legacy Keywords: Expeditions ; Wasps ; Insects