The Lion Hunters

Duration: 68

Year Published: 1965

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Follows Gao hunters on a lion hunt near the border of Mali and Niger and presents related rituals such as preparation of the poison for arrows, release of the souls of slain animals, and retelling of the events of the hunt and the feats of the hunters. Explains in the words of the hunters themselves the meanings and reasons for many of their procedures, beliefs, and rituals. Includes visual and narrated ethnography of the Gao and the Fulani, the Tuareg, and the Belie with whom they come in contact.

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