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The strenuousness of women's work is revealed as a woman patiently chops a large log for firewood one evening, enough to last one day. Her two children play nearby, and she occasionally stops to nurse the younger. The wood is loaded into a basket and she walks slowly back to the village, the heavy burden slung on a tumpline from her forehead, the young child in her arms.
This film is included on the Yanomamö Shorts compilation DVD. This two-disc set includes the following remastered titles on Disc One: Arrow Game, Children's Magical Death, Climbing the Peach Palm, A Father Washes His Children, A Man and His Wife Make a Hammock and Weeding the Garden. Also included on Disc One: Firewood, Tapir Distribution and Tug-of-War. Disc Two includes: Dedeheiwä
Rests in His Garden, Children Roasting Meat, A Woman Spins, Children
Make a Toy Hammock, Sand Play, Playing in the Rain, Mouth Wrestling, and Young Shaman.
Films in the Yanomamö series:
Arrow Game *†
Firewood *
* included on the Yanomamö Shorts compilation
† included in the Yanomamö Films: Remastered, Vol. 1 set
† included in the Yanomamö Films: Remastered, Vol. 1 set
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