Timeless Hunters 1991

For tens of thousands of years, the Aborigines of Australia and their island neighbours to the north have led a subsistence lifestyle by hunting for their food.

Visit mainland Australian Aborigines, Torres Strait Islanders, Trobriand Islanders, Solomon Islanders where we see an enthusiastic revival of their customs and traditional ways of hunting and gathering - the old teaching the young - in a desperate bid to preserve their dying culture.

The coming of the white man suppressed many of these traditions and made the natives vassals of the white man’s administration.

The drift of the young generation away from their island villages to the provincial towns has been cause for concern by the elders. Their customs are slowly dying.
These are the ‘Timeless Hunters’- using their skills to hunt Dugong, Turtles, Sharks and other fish by unique traditional methods such as poisonous leaves, vine nets, or utilising spiders web to make a remarkably strong lure.

It’s an action-packed documentary of rarely filmed hunting skills.

Видео Timeless Hunters 1991 канала Ben Cropp