Object Details
- Local Number
- HSFA 1994.8.2
- Collection Creator
- Davis, Hassoldt, 1907-1959
- Davis, Ruth
- See more items in
- Hassoldt and Ruth S. Davis films
- Extent
- 1 Film reel (20 minutes, color silent; 720 feet, 16mm)
- Date
- 1949
- Archival Repository
- Human Studies Film Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Film reels
- Collection Citation
- Hassoldt and Ruth S. Davis films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Scope and Contents
- Edited film produced by Warner Brothers documents expedition made by Hassoldt and Ruth Davis inland from St. Laurent, French Guiana to theTumac Humac mountains on the Brazilian border. Expedition was accompanied by Boni guides and paddlers. The film shows trip up river to the territory of the Roucouyenne (Rucuyen) where a wasp torture ceremony is staged for the expedition party. Also filmed were the abandoned penal colony of Devil's Island and former prisoners. Legacy Keywords: Expeditions ; Wasps ; Insects
- Collection Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
- Record ID
- ebl-1633053688995-1633053689000-1
