Kinect Will Save The Indigenous Rock Art Of A Paraguayan Tribe
Panambi'y Rock Art Frank WeaverA documentary team is using the 3-D imager to quickly digitize generations-old rock carvings before they are lost. Frank Weaver is a documentary filmmaker and native Paraguayan (now working from Florida) who has lived among and documented the culture of Paraguay's Panambi'y Indians for several years now, logging the traditions and lore of a very old culture threatened by encroaching progress, particularly deforestation and slash-and-burn farming. But when it came time to record and preserve the centuries-old traditions of the local Pai Tavytera Indians of the Amambay hills, Weaver turned to a decidedly modern tool: the much-hacked Microsoft Kinect. The indigenous people of the Amambay hills treat the surrounding jungle as sacred, and for generations they have decorated their surroundings with rock carvings that are now increasingly disappearing, victim to both natural erosion and the local logging trade. These rock carvings are in danger of disappearing along...