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Climbing the Peach Palm
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Filmmaker Name:
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Timothy Asch, Napoleon Chagnon
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Film Length:
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9 min
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Film Year:
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1974
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Duration:
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0-20 min
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Decade:
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1970s
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Series:
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Yanomamö series
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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South America
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The ingenuity of Yanomamö technology is revealed in the climbing frame used to scale the spiny trunk of the peach palm tree. Here a young man collects the fruit for his in-laws by means of two frames, each constructed of two crisscrossed poles. As he perches on one frame, he raises (or lowers) the other, onto which he carefully steps, continuing in this manner up (or down) the entire tree.
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