Damacio Caitruz (by Jorge Prelorán)

Clip from ethnographic film by Jorge Prelorán documenting the Araucanian tribe of Mapuche Indians at Ruca Choroy, an Indian reservation in a small valley of the Southern Andes, Nenquin Province, Argentina, where approximately eighty families lived. Narrated by Damacio Caitruz, the head of the tribe, the film explores daily and religious life in this isolated settlement. Filmed during the summer of 1966. Prelorán first released this film in 1971 under the title "Araucanos de Ruca Choroy" (and in English as "Araucanians of Ruca Choroy"). This clip is from a re-edited version that Prelorán completed in 2008.

For more information, see the full catalog record: http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?view=&dsort=&date.slider...
and visit the Human Studies Film Archives' web exhibit on the Prelorán Collection: http://anthropology.si.edu/accessinganthropology/preloran/index.html

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Argentina
• Andes
• Prelorán
• Mapuche
• ethnographic
• educational
• ethnobiography
• film
• archival
• history
• documentary
• culture