Indian Life in the Gran Chaco {Indianerleben im Gran Chaco} (1932/1950) – Hans Krieg *

Senior man – Indian Life in the Gran Chaco (1932) – dir. Hans Krieg.

16 mins., b&w, silent.

Production : Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film.

Source : this film is viewable on the portal of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) here.

An indigenous village in the Gran Chaco. After some preliminary sequences of subsistence practices, shot in a distant and rather dull manner, there are some more interesting sequences towards the end of the film concerning a ceremony and shamanic curing. Judging by their dress, particularly their fur leggings, they would appear to be Lengua people.

Although it was not released by the IWF until 1950, this film was shot in 1932  by Hans Krieg, the leader of a German zoological expedition to the northern part of the Gran Chaco, i.e. the borderlands lying between Paraguay and southern Brazil.

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