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89520 PH03
90560 FR504593
91640 PH04
96880 PH05
102920 Other women and children gather as
Borowama
and
Nakahedami
scold
Uuwä
. One woman walks behind him, carrying her baby and a club.
FR533120
103000
PH06
117040
PH07
137840
PH08
180120
Keböwä
attacks the
woman
, probably Huuhuumi
.
Mohesiwä
fends off Keböwä with his bow stave and the woman escapes to the rear. Another woman
breaks into a run across the plaza as
Yoinakuwä
aggressively approaches Mohesiwä's group with his machete. [For a still-frame sequence
of Keböwä's attack, see:
FR180120
]
199880
PH09
201520 Unable to intimidate the ax-wielding
Keböwä
,
Törawä
exchanges his machete for
Iyaböwä
's ax.
PH10
202040
PH11
204200
FR655372
206360
PH12
208320
PH13
209760
PH14
212680
FR675160
214180
PH15
214280
Yaukuima, Keböwä'
s sister, seizes the handle of
Törawä
's ax as he staggers back. She twists the sharp edge away from
Keböwä and
pulls Törawä off balance.
FR679574
216480
Yoroshianawä
, unaware of
Keböwä
's attack, strides away from
Törawä.
Visible over the heads of the crowd, Keböwä launches a powerful overhead blow with
his ax, the dull end forward. The rest of the action is not visible. [Chagnon,
who was near Törawä, says that the ax hit him squarely between the shoulder blades.]
FR685867
216640
PH16
219760
Chagnon
appears at the periphery of the fight, taking a picture with a 35mm camera. A
man
with an ax strides from Wadoshewä's section of the shabono toward the conflict.
Räaiyowä
, Sinabimi
's 10-year old son, turns and runs at top speed toward his house.
PH17
220960 Törawä
cannot be seen on camera. [Chagnon's 1975 narration for the current moment: "The
situation is now very tense. Participants cannot tell if Törawä has been killed
or is merely unconscious."]
PH18
226360
Nanokawä
, previously unarmed, arrives with a short, heavy club. He wades into the throng,
pushing
Mohesiwä
backward.
PH19
226760 FR704120
233720
PH20
235400
Wadoshewä
shakes his finger at the
man
, probably Kaaböwä
, who has just struck a blow at someone in the crowd.
PH21
235480
Yakahaiwä
, co-husband of Hurumöwä
, charges out of the crowd to drive away a woman on the fringes.
FR720387
236280 Fighting surges to the right as more men take up weapons.
PH22
240577
PH23
244880
Räaiyowä
marches toward the fight. Just above his head in the current frame of film,
Törawä
can be seen collapsing. A
woman
, probably Törawä's wife Bireima
, kneels behind him as he falls to the ground.
[A still-frame sequence provides greater clarity:
FR244880 ]
247560 Photographs taken while the 16mm camera position is being moved:
PH24
PH25
PH26
250720
PH27
259480 Photographs taken while the 16mm camera is off:
PH28
PH29 PH30
PH31
264920
PH32
282400 Photograph taken while the 16mm camera is off:
PH33
289075
PH34
292600
PH35
294920 PH36