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History of Guyana in motion video, Vol.5 – 1948

Below is a collection of films made in and about Guyana circa 1948, courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). Any use of the footage in productions is forbidden unless rights have been secured by contacting the Penn Museum Archives at 215-898-8304, or email photos@museum.upenn.edu.


Below is a collection of films made in and about Guyana circa 1948, courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). Any use of the footage in productions is forbidden unless rights have been secured by contacting the Penn Museum Archives at 215-898-8304, or email photos@museum.upenn.edu.

All of the films in the Penn Museum collection are copyrighted by the Penn Museum

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1948 – Penn Museum collection
Boat in shallow stream. Horse and cart.
Foliage-roofed house on stilts.
Partially woven straw object.
Utensils on shelves, village shelter.
Frame of village building.
Village scenes: circle of cans(?), stilt houses, various dwellings.
Interior of a house: canned goods, fireplace. (?)
Stick fence houses.
Smoothing dough using hand tool, turning the dough.
Woven straw object (?).
Houses.
Food on table. Tubular container: woven ( ? ).
Monkey in a cage.
Pots and pans on elevated wooden stand.
Woman scraping something using hand tool.
Bread drying( ? ) on grass roof. Kneading dough by hand
Tin roofed building. Children seated as for group portrait.
Various traditional houses and shelters.
Cow-drawn cartload of wood. Men with big snakes.
Felling tree with an ax.
Scenes from boat along marsh; hut in reeds.
Wood frame shelter, grass roof.
Leaf on thatch roof, fence-like stick wall.
Buildings. Local people. Cut-woods. Sylvan scenes.
Insect hive (?) in tree.
Flowers

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