Hi,
Great addition, may I recommend france-vidcaps forum to ask if it has ever been seen there?

Thank you.

You have this one for example :

vivrenu.com/download.php?dcategory=Peuples+premiers&sortby=dda te

(some are freely accessible, but some of them are only accessible for members of this forum)

thanks for sharing
it's an interesting thread for sure

if we look at the haircut, bodypaint and houses - perhaps we are able to recognize the tribe

i believe it has to be the Xingu - Kamayurás or Kuikuro

paty.posto7.com.br/xingu.htm

they have contact with "the white men" for a long time and are friendly to visitors
they build large houses and have a big ground for their wrestling matches

Hey ! Does anyone have any videos or pics of tribes of INDIA ??? Many indigenous tribes live in INDIA and Himalayas still in the nude??

I don't have any other information to add to the discussion about the surprise nudity of the French reporter.
I did contact the owner of the VHS tape and ...

As he is still using a f'n VHS player, we won't be seening an uploaded video anytime soon.

He does assure me the language is, indeed, French.

He did take some snaps (yes actual photographs of the TV screen). One shows the panel hosts of the show so if anybody with knowledge of French television recognises them, please enlighten. I have included a second snap just so people joining this thread in progress won't be left with a "WTF is that?" expression.

By the way the bodypaint looks spot on.
Thanks again everyone for your interest.

Thanks again for the extra screenshots.
Man its really frustrating.. I would love to see that video.. Lets hope one
of our members recognizes the panel so we can ID this show.

BTW I wonder if the guys in the panel knew that they were about to see
there hot collegue butt naked :)

It's clearly old, at most the 80', maybe the 70'.

There weren't many channels in France in those years. Only TF1, Antenne 2 (often referred to as "A2"), and FR3.

another xingu tribe - the Yawalapiti - have the same bodypaints as the Kuikuro

the first contact with the white man was in 1987

we should not go too far in the past - so it could be the 90thies as well and in this time vhs was a common used medium

small vid and infos: oxfordhumanities.com/products_details.php?name=products&id=9

The women wearing those black bottoms look out of place in that region. I notice their prized uluri, the triangular piece of bark they wear on their mons, is gone.

My remark was not about the fact that it was on a VHS, but about the decoration style of the tv set, which is very typical of what the French TV channels were using in the 70s and the 80s. It looks way too old-fashioned for the 90s IMO...