Tribal women

[lechtirde]

Originally Posted by lygone

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...

the tv set does look more like late 70s or better early 80s for sure

[edoeducation]

Originally Posted by sunnynude

does anyone know--are they naturally hairless, or do they shave?

Wow ! Only if we all were that lucky to be hair-free in the pubic area!!!!!!!! Off course they shave their pubes, which dimension do you live in????

[elendil]

Man on the left looks like Michel Berger (a famous french singer)
The other Roger Gicquel (perhaps).

[Klythez]

Originally Posted by sunnynude

does anyone know--are they naturally hairless, or do they shave?

They have pubic hair. Some women pluck it out, including their eyebrows, to prevent lice and crabs from taking hold. I read about this in National Geographic several years before the internet. The hair pattern is the typical triangular shape, with varying degrees of curliness.

[pennywiseguy2]

Xingu.

PWG2

[lygone]

Originally Posted by marina austin

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.

I've posted the first of these two pictures on a French forum that if full of specialists of 80's French TV programs... Nothing has been found for now about which program this could be from... Still, some speculation about whether the man sitting on the left of the TV set could be Michel Berger (in which case, finding who the other man is would be the key to identifying the program...).

Is there any possibility to have a sound recording of this "debate" part of the program, if a video recording isn't possible ?

[lechtirde]

the quality of this preview pics are sadly bad

i don't believe the guy is Michel Berger, just because he has a similar haircut, it could be trendy in those years
Michel Berger is or was a singer songwriter and why should he participate in this tv show, but who knows ...

a few facts i found:
the first contact ever with the xingu seems to be in 1961
french tv broadcaster "France 2" financed documentaries in south america
what i believe:
the woman we search for does not look like an european, more like a brasilian-born
as a result
it could be a brazilian or south american documentary financed by france 2 and shown later on in a french tv show
there is color tv since the late 60s thus it's likely the documentary was made soonest in the 70s

we need to ask an old brasilian ;-)

[lechtirde]

a few more pics

[osreb]

2 add today

[nevrey]

I have a question that i tried looking up on the internet but could not find anything definitive - the Xingu tribal woman - They look like they all shave their fannies, just wondering - how etc. They don't own a Gillette razor and anything else would be an interesting painful adventure that you would not want to do too often - but they must do it regularly as well as there are no fuzzy ones.

I am sure someone here knows what the go is??