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Homenaje a los Yaganes [electronic resource] : los ultimos Indigenas de Tierra del Fuego y Cabo de Hornos / un film de Ann Chapman.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Ethnographic video online.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Button, Jemmy, d. 1864.
- Button, Jemmy.
- Beagle Expedition (1831-1836).
- Beagle Expedition.
- Yahgan Indians.
- Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile)--Description and travel.
- Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile).
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Biographical films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video (40 min.) : sd., col.
- Other Title:
- Ultimos Indigenas de Tierra del Fuego y Cabo de Hornos
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 1990.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- This documentary is about the destruction of one of the world's most interesting cultures, the Yahgan of the antipodes. The film focuses on the personality and life of a Yahgan called "Jemmy Button" who was taken to England in 1831 and returned to his homeland two years later during Captain Robert Fitzroy's second expedition, in the company of Charles Darwin.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed on Nov. 1, 2011).
- Previously released on DVD.
- Recorded in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, South America, Cape Horn, and Chile.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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