Casabindo (by Jorge Prelorán)

Clip from ethnographic film by Jorge Prelorán documents festivities in honor of the Virgin of the Assumption, patron saint of Casabindo, Jujuy Province, Argentina. Casabindo was the first town founded by Spanish Conquistadors in the territory of Argentina. Filmed circa 1965-1966. This film was recently preserved to film.

For more information, please 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

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• Argentina
• Andes
• Prelorán
• ethnographic
• educational
• film
• archival
• history
• documentary
• religion
• culture
• heritage