Both the Waika and Makiritare Indians gather some of their food right out of the jungle. A snake is caught and cooked, and fish are hunted in an ingenious way; leaves are beaten, mashed and mixed with mud, and stirred into a river, thereby restarting oxygen absorption and forcing the stunned or dead fish to the surface where they are easily collected. Huge worms are gathered at river banks, dressed, cooked, and eaten.
Films » Food Gathering
Food Gathering
Alternative Title: Makiritare: Food Gathering (Snake, Fish and Worms)
Series Title: Indians of the Orinoco
Summary:
Description:
Edited Film
Country/Location: Venezuela
Tribe or Group: Makiritare and Waika
Producer: Julien Bryan
Director: Hermann Schlenker
Cinematographer: Hermann Schlenker
Production Company: IFF
Running Time: 11 min.
Years Filmed: 1971
Decade Produced: 1970s
Years Distributed: -1972
Film Gauge: 16mm
Stock: Color Safety
Footage Count: 402'
Sound: Un-narrated, Recorded On Location
Notes: Possible that footage pre-existed and was contracted by IFF for this series. IFF does not own OCN- returned to Schlenker after production of internegatives (?). There are 8 films in the Indians of the Orinoco series (all footage shot during the same expedition).
