Weaving the Bridge at Q’eswachaka
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Produced for the exhibition “The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire” (http://americanindian.si.edu/inkaroad/), on view at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., through June 1, 2018. Every year, local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon use traditional Inka engineering techniques to rebuild the Q’eswachaka Bridge. The old bridge is taken down and the new bridge is built in only three days. The bridge has been rebuilt in this same location continually since the time of the Inka. This video is narrated by John Ochsendorf, professor of civil engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and produced by Noonday Films.
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Hello, my partner and I, at noonday films, produced this video for the Smithsonian NMAI. We are currently running a crowdfunding campaign for a feature length film about the architect of the bridge and his family. We followed them over the course of three years and found an extremely important story. Take a look at the campaign and the trailer here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1826552601/the-bridge-masters-daughter
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Tran Dang Dang Khoa's from Vietnam who brought me to here 😀
That is incredible work very amazing to see how much effort +time go in to constructing the bridge
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OK so how did they do the first one
Un peuple très ingénieux, aucune étude universitaire mais beaucoup d imagination et de débrouillardise. C est à faire pâlir beaucoup d ingénieurs.
Thank you for filming this project. The Inca civilization is very fascinating. Wonderful to see the men of their tribe all pitching in to create new rope foe creating a replacement walking bridge. Beautiful teamwork! I know the village men all got blistered hands pulling hard in unison to make the long rope taunt and strong. Thanks for filming so those of us who have not yet visited this beautiful site can see a preview of it.
Brilliant building techniques. The old ways really work and the whole community is involved. I love this!
It's "Inca" NOT "INKA". Shame on you
We could all learn from this.
My grandfather the great acquitecto. I'm glad
roadrashray A nice story and I hope that it's true for many reasons. I have a little bit of a problem with the large number of worker uniforms, consisting of matching hats, sweaters and pants shown in many segments. These people are among the poorest on earth and most of their clothes are home made, which would mostly preclude a uniform look. One of the scenes of the dancers at the end also displayed a line of look a likes. With that said, I did pose the question on google and snopes and got no response, so maybe I'm just to disbelieving
Obvious hint for all future annual rebuildings of this bridge: don't cut the old one down until you finish the new one! One of the toughest parts of building unsupported spans is getting them started; there's nothing but air to work upon! It would be a dream for most span builders to have something to stand on. Must be a silly tradition there or something to not use the old one.
"learning the ropes: MIT students build Incan-style bridges at Stata" – mit.edu
"Inca Leapt Canyons With Fiber Bridges: MIT Students Plan to Stretch 60-Foot-Long Fiber Bridge Between Campus Buildings
By John Noble Wilford
THE NEW YORK TIMES
MIT students learning from Inca engineers. Gotta Love It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the symbolism is so there
Wonderful video! But how was the first rope suspension bridge built?
A fantastic and interesting way to make up a bridge??
A fantastic and interesting way to make up a bridge??
But without government, who would build the bridges?
Wonderful and educative video!
I couldn't even begin to comprehend the level of attention and time it would take to hand weave the bridge. And i believe it would be rather distressing to have the bridge fall after all that work was put into the creation of the bridge.
This is amazing. I can't believe this only takes 3 days!
What a great story! 10+1
I saw this In cherch today
Michael tokleley
Extraordinário!
2:58 LGBT flag?
Very cool. Its not the bridge. Its the people and know how.
why do they wear those winter hats in that heat?
Or they could build a stone bridge…. and never rebuild it… k lol
Why do they have uniforms? Are they just a community or are they paid to do this?
Is there an anthropology paper on this already?