Category: Movies » Tv Shows → BBC – David Attenborough The Tribal Eye (1975) 1,2of7 Dvdrip Xvid - FQM

David Attenborough is, of course, renowned for his amazing wildlife series, but for many years he has also been fascinated with tribal art. This series from 1975 finds him taking a journey around the world to reveal the making and use of tribal art in some of the few places on earth where the traditions are intact.

Through the series, Attenborough gives viewers a fascinating guide to the worl's tribal art travelling to intriguing places and tribal communities. Attenborough's love of tribal art grew out of his early programme-making days at the BBC and took him to all corners of the world. From his first trips he accumulated souvenirs and eventually became a serious collector of tribal art. This series was commissioned shortly after he resigned from his job as Director of Programmes. He believed there was room on television for totem poles and masks as well as old master paintings. The resulting lavish series examined sculpture, weaving, metal casting and other artistic activities in tribal societies around the world.

Episode 1 – Behind the Mask

The craftsmen of the Dogon people of Mali are among the finest sculptors in the world. The head of each household must tend the wooden cult figures in which the spirits of his ancestors dwell, feeding them regularly with millet and blood to ensure the fertility of the fields, the return of the seasonal rains and the health of the people. Concealed in remote desert shrines, the carvings are as meaningful to the Dogon as the Bible is to the Western world. Without their sculpture, some of the most splendid and crucial events in their lives could not take place.

Episode 2 – The Crooked Beak of Heaven

The Northwest Coast Haida, Gitksan and Kwakiutl Indians inhabit a beautiful, harsh land along the coast of British Columbia and south to Oregon. Pre-eminent carvers of wood, they created totem poles that are among the largest wooden sculptures ever made by man. Integrating footage made of tribal rights by Edward Curtis in 1912, the film contrasts them with those same rights today. The spectacular theatrical genius of these people is particularly vivid during the dance of the cannibal birds known to the Kwakiutl as “the crooked beak of heaven.”
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