Relatorio. In Denise Portugal Lasmar, O Acervo Imagético da Comissão Rondon: no Museu do Indio 1890-1938, 2nd edition, pp. 266-310. Rio de Janeiro: Museu do Índio.
Cunha, Edgar da (2010)
Funeral Bororo em imagens: Major Reis e outros realizadores. In Rubens Machado Jr., Rosana de Lima Soares and Luciana de Araújo, eds., Estudos de Cinema Socine VII, pp. 217-224. São Paulo: Annablume.
Caiuby Novaes, Sylvia (2006b)
Bororo funerals: images of the refacement of the world. Tipití 4: 177-198.
Tacca, Fernando de (2002)
Rituaes e festas Bororo. A construção da imagem do índio como “selvagem” na Comissão Rondon. Revista de Antropologia 45 (1).
Available on-line here
Rondon, Cândido Mariano da Silva (1946)
Índios do Brasil – do Centro, Noroeste e Sul do Mato Grosso, vol. 1. Conselho Nacional de Proteção aos Índios, Ministério de Agricultura. Rio de Janeiro
Available on-line via the Museo do Índio, Rio de Janeiro here
8mm cameras
Although 8mm cameras were aimed at the amateur market, they were sometimes used by ethnographers for simple documentation purposes. Among those to do so were Dina and Claude Lévi-Strauss who took a camera that Claude describes as an “oval-shaped miniature 8mm camera” on their 1935-36 expedition to the interior of Brazil.
This description would fit the Bell & Howell Filmo 127-A, the so-called ‘Straight Eight’ (see below), which was launched in 1935, i.e. the same year in which the Lévi-Strausses set out on their journey.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1994)
Saudades do Brasil : A Photographic Memoir. Trans. Sylvia Modelski. University of Washington Press: Seattle and London.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1955/1976)
Tristes Tropiques. Trans. John and Doreen Weightman. Penguin Books.
Hobson, Eric (2018)
Brazil from Above: General Rondon and the Matto Grosso Expedition. Expedition 60(3): 26-37.
Available here
Pezzati, Alessandro (2017)
The Lost Explorer. Expedition 59(2): 53-56.
Available here
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