Word: huts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orangutan is remarkable because it is so similar to man, and in this picture the relationship is derogatory to neither branch of the species: the hunter and the ape are allies against death-by-violence as symbolized by the tiger. Once the orangutans loot the hunter's hut but for the most part they are mannerly, sagacious, and amusing. With them in the cast are all sorts of other monkeys; they swarm across rivers, run up vines, keep a lookout in a tree and in the end are a deciding factor in the triumphant campaign against the tigers. Rango...
Oddly enough I dreamt in the night, and a singular dream it was too. For I was married, hut to an old hag who was burning my humidor and thwarting all pleas for justice in the matter. Then suddenly in the dream she died having uttered the last word and sealed my mouth to an humble and eternal silence...
...producers have given Trader Horn a rather terrifying flavor of reality. Lions kill before your eyes. A man is gored by a rhinoceros. Best performance is given by one Mutia Omoolu, a black gunbearer who returned with the troupe from Africa, lived in a hut on the Metro lot, hated Hollywood...
...earth and stones. It is then placed on the head of the victim who is made to turn round and round. The basket is occasionally twitched the wrong way, causing broken necks. In the second, the victim is roped round the middle, hauled to the roof rafters of a hut while a fire is lighted beneath him on which handfuls of pepper have been thrown...
...most accomplished warriors are allowed to go on a head-hunt. As soon as a lucky group is chosen, the rest of the tribe dances, prays to hundreds of gods to send them many heads. When the warriors arrive in enemy country they construct a small hut for ambush. The first victim to appear has a spear thrown at him. Ifugao etiquet demands that the one who throws the fatal spear gets the head. Other warriors are supposed to stand by and watch while the killer dances over the fallen body, slashes the neck with his long knife, wets...