INTRODUCTION TO CREFAL Part 4

Description

On the Turascan Indians on the shore of Lake Patzcuaro in Mexico and efforts to raise their standard of living under the Point Four program. Shows a panorama of a training center, a street scene in a Turascan village, and native ceremonies and dances. Turascans make adobe bricks, construct homes, herd sheep, shuck corn, thresh wheat, and fish in the lake with nets and harpoons. Women wash clothes on the lake shore, cook tortillas, visit the village market, and weave sombreros and nets of grass.

Collection

General Records of the Department of State

Series

Moving Images Relating to U.S. Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations