Firewood

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 part of the Yanomamö series, a collaborative project undertaken by filmmaker Timothy Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon between 1968 and 1971 to film the Yanomamö Indians of southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. 

This film is available on the Yanomamö Shorts compilation two-disc DVD set. 

Disc One: Arrow Game, Children's Magical Death, Climbing the Peach Palm, A Father Washes His Children, Firewood, A Man and His Wife Make a Hammock, Tapir Distribution,Tug-of-War and Weeding the Garden.

Disc Two (Slopticals): 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.