Paraguay. The First Tribe Evangelised in Paraguayan Chaco 1910's. Film 6648

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Channel: HuntleyFilmArchives · 2013 · Travel & Events

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Paraguay.  Lengua Mascoys, Paraguay, South America. Missionaries.
First Tribe Evangelised in Paraguayan Chaco
A group of young men stand around , an old man eats and smokes a pipe.  Children twirl around for the camera .  Women , bare breasted, one with a baby, middle aged and old women pose for the camera, one woman carries a baby on her back.  Another group of women stand around , some with children, some pregnant. A man makes a spear or an arrow.  Three men drink and smoke.  Women collect water from a lake. A woman makes a net.  A white man gives food to children sitting on the ground.  They appear to say grace.  Children jump into the lake.  Gauchos saddle a mule and ties boxes and parcels to it, they fall off and the scene is quite comic as the mule runs off.  So, they tie the mule to a post.  Drinking Caraguata plant.  Young men shoot arrows at a small target.  " Team wrestling - Challenging all Comers ".  White man with group around the camp fire outside straw roofed hut.  Women  men and children come out of primitive church.

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