The Lion Hunters
General Information
- Original Title
- La chasse au lion à l'arc
- Author/Creator
- Rouch, Jean, director.
- Published
- France : Les Films de la Pléiade/Pierre Braunberger, 1967.
- Physical Description
- VHS (77 min.)
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Between 1957 and 1964, hunters from the Yatakala region undertook seven hunting expeditions employing traditional bows and poisoned arrows. The film follows the technical and religious aspects of that hunt, which today has disappeared: the construction of the bows and arrows, preparation of the poison, tracking, arrow-making rituals, the death of the prey, cutting up the meat, and the telling of the story to the children. On the boundary between Niger, Mali, and Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) live the Gow—the last hunters of lions with bows and arrows. It is a "nowhere" land—"the bush that is farther than far"—beyond the sedentary villages, where the great Peul or Bella herdsmen wander around scattered ponds. Introduction by Bernard Surugue.
Subjects
- Subject
- France
Bibliographic Information
- Title Translation
- The Lion Hunters
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| VHS | OSA Film Library | FL Record 1103d | Available | | - |