https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/fbf13e5e-8cbe-4c83-ac94-a2bf245934ef Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This episode “Unknown Mexico” from the TV series “True Adventure” is a Bill Burrud Production from the late 1960s, probably 1967, and was produced by William H. White with Gene McCabe and Gerald Pearce, directed by Betty Turbiville, and edited by William R. Lieb. This upload is a black-and-white version and the episode covers an exhibition crew exploring unknown tribal land in Mexico, firstly visiting the Cora Indian tribe, followed by the Huichol Indian tribe, portraying their christian pagan rituals and ceremonies. The tribes are two separate indigenous groups with different languages, but they have very close relationships and marriages. Fireworks (00:10). Credits (00:16). “True Adventure” title banner (00:26). A globe (00:32). Host Bill Burrud introduces the episode and speaks about traveling through unknown Mexican territory (00:40). Views of two Indian tribes, Cora and Huichol, in Mexico and their villages (01:03). One True Adventure crew member pushes a canoe into water (01:22). Views of water streams (01:27). A crew member holds a weapon (01:34). Host Bill Burrud continues to speak about the crew's expedition into unknown Mexican tribal territory (01:38). Bird’s-eye-views of Mexico from an aircraft (02:16). Views of crew members Gregory and Robert in the aircraft (02:28). The aircraft has landed north of Guadalajara (02:41). The crew rides horses through the town of San Juan Peyotán (03:02). Music is played for a fiesta (03:11). A rodeo in the streets (03:37). The sheriff offers shelter for the crew members in a hut (03:57). The crew continues their journey on donkeys (04:20). They arrive at a Cora tribe village (04:26). Views of a tribal ceremony showing the Moors support and hate to the Spanish (04:55). Tribal members walk to the sound of drums and tribal songs (05:16). Views of the tribe’s christian and pagan ceremonies and rituals, including Christmas, town officials assuming duties, and ritualistic dances (05:27). Tribal men wear sugarcane frameworks to represent bulls (06:36). A ritual of a white man’s sacrifice showing the hate for their spanish oppressors (07:30). A struggle between tribal members (07:54). The tribal member dressed as ‘white man’ lies dead (08:07). Ritualistic dancing (08:13). The crew members continue their journey on donkeys (08:31). Views of the Huichol tribe’s village and people (08:57). The crew members’ campsite on the outskirts of the Huichol village (09:51). A scorpion crawls in their bed (09:58). Anti-venom (10:09). The tribe’s ‘witch doctor’ and his prayer feathers (10:33). He treats a tribal woman bitten by a scorpion (11:04). The crew’s journey continues (11:39). They arrive to the autonomous Huichol village, San Andrés Cohamiata, in Mezquitic, Jalisco, Mexico (12:06). Views of the Indians of the tribe (12:31). Men of the tribe leave a house affected by narcotics after chewing Peyote, a cactus plant (14:25). Vultures flying (14:35). A bell is rung (14:39), and a bull is prepared for sacrifice for a pagan ritual (14:46). Men from the tribe are dressed as women as part of a ceremony (17:38). The crew prepares to leave Huichol village (18:11). Their journey continues to a Huichol cave outside San Andrés Cohamiata (18:26). They explore the cave, firstly seeing the sight where a young girl had died years before (19:02). Their guide is weaving outside the cave (19:33). The exhibition crew continues their journey, walking through water with their donkeys (19:46), and sailed through Rio Santiago River to the sea (20:08). Gregory shoots a duck and they keep an iguana in their boat (21:25). They set up camp on a beach of the pacific ocean (21:40). They arrive on a small island, home to another Huichol tribe, showing their marriage rights ceremony (21:50). The crew members speak to tribe members (22:54). Crew member Gregory and host Bill Burrud speak about the exhibition and conclude the episode (23:55). Credits (25:34). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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