Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest of the American Museum of Natural History (1927)

Parallel Names

• The Woodcraft Indian Trip

Biography

Abstract:

The Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest of the American Museum of Natural History (1927) was led by naturalist, Ernest Thompson Seton, and AMNH curator, George Clyde Fisher.

The purpose of the trip was to document cultural practices of Indigenous People on a route from North Dakota to Arizona. An expedition film created during the trip depicts a variety of dances (the buffalo, hood, war, eagle, corn, deer and snowbird) performed by People of the Tesuque, Taos, Acoma and Santa Clara Pueblos. Fisher also filmed other activities of the local people during the trip, most notably an intertribal ceremony in Gallup, New Mexico, gathering the Tesuque, Comanche, Zuni, Apache, Hopi, Cochiti, Jicarilla, San Juan, Acoma, and Jemez.

Places

• North Dakota
• Arizona

Topics

• AMNH Expeditions
• Ethnological expeditions
• Indigenous peoples

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