Shamans from early tribes looked after the spiritual well being of their flock, albeit using unconventional, by today's standards, methods such as inducing trances.
The drama of these two families is interrupted periodically by crowd scenes with chorus members as intrusive reporters in pursuit of a sensational story.
When Frank and I stepped through the post office doors, there was a crowd gathered, gawking at the new fixture on the wall like a chorus of wide-mouthed frogs.
He started off with kinematic experiments derived from the still novel cinema and used its special capability of showing successive sequences in the course of motion in a cubist or futuristic manner.
Remember this is 1838, "Self-Reliance" was a novel idea at the time and the United States citizens were less secure about themselves as individuals and as Americans.
Above all, nature photography lends to our lives what we long ago lost in our modern abandonment of nature - the experience of wonderment, that sense of discovery, newness and awe.