High Plain
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1994.19.44
name: label: Collection Film distributor
content: Pennsylvania State University. Audio-Visual Services
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content: Penn State educational film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (19 minutes, black-and-white sound; 709 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1942
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 the United States Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs for the Office of War Information on life in the Bolivian altiplano. Film traces development of the large Petaca potato hacienda from scattered indian villages surrounding Lake Titicaca. Scenes include reed fishing boats on the lake, Aymara women setting up a loom, spinning and weaving, children herding sheep, pigs and burros, men and women working in the fields, plowing, harvesting grain crops and potatoes. Also recorded is the visit of the Hacienda patron, beginning use of modern farm machinery for planting barley, and a fiesta celebrating a religious holiday or harvest with Aymara wearing tall headdresses and ceremonial "neck pieces."

Legacy Keywords: Julien Bryan ; Fishing Bolivia ; Herding Bolivia ; Boats Bolivia ; Weaving Bolivia ; Spinning spindle Bolivia ; Festivals agricultural Bolivia ; Festivals religious Bolivia ; Agricultural cycles ; Agricultural tools plows Bolivia ; Irrigation Bolivia ; Land tenure Bolivia ; Serfdom Bolivia ; South America ; Bolivia ; Lake Titicaca (Peru) ;Aymara Indians ; Jules Bucher