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Indian dances

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 260
Scope and Contents Outtake material from Edgar Monsanto Queeny's film Sunrise Serenades was incorporated in this film made by the museum's Department of Education. Designed primarily for use by schools, the film was intended to teach observation and understanding by depicting the Indian as a skillful observer of nature. In the museum's Felix M. Warburg Memorial Hall (Man and Nature), the film's opening sequence focuses on the relationship between the blue jay and the fox in the Autumn at Stissing Mountain...
Dates: 1951

Indian pottery making in the village of San Ildefonso, New Mexico

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 197
Scope and Contents This film depicting the unique process of pottery making at the San Ildefonso Pueblo was made by George Clyde Fisher, curator in the AMNH Department of Education, Clark Wissler, curator-in-chief of the AMNH Department of Anthropology, and Kenneth Chapman of the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico Renowned potter Maria Martinez demonstrates the technique of her unique method of firing pottery. Before starting, she tosses blue cornmeal over the earth as a blessing. She and...
Dates: 1932

Jungle life in India

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 198
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Faunthorpe-Vernay Indian Expedition to India, Nepal and Burma, 1922-1923. This film was made by Commander George M. Dyott, a professional cinematographer, whose main purpose was to show the environment of India, Nepal, and Burma, and therefore be valuable to the hall preparators designing the dioramas for the AMNH Hall of South Asiatic Mammals. The co-leaders of the expedition were Colonel John Champion Faunthorpe and AMNH trustee Arthur Stannard Vernay, both...
Dates: 1922-1923

Jurgens' Guatemala

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 199
Scope and Contents This unedited footage was produced to document life in the Chuchumatanes highlands of Guatemala. The Mayan people of Atitlan were chosen by Victor J. Jurgens, a professional filmmaker, because they seemed to have maintained their traditional ways and to be independent of the cultures around them. This same tendency, however, caused them to be so aloof as to make filming with any intimacy virtually impossible. The film opens with a family burning incense on a hill to ensure a good crop. One...
Dates: 1954

Korea

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 200
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Andrews Korean Whaling Expedition, 1912. Roy Chapman Andrews, assistant curator in the Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology, went to Korea in 1912 to collect various species of whales. Although he took a lot of motion picture footage, this little film is all that remains. Shown at first are Keijo (now Seoul), then under Japanese rule and called Chosen, and its surrounding hills, the South Gate (for which the city was named), trolleys, and bullock carts. Koreans in...
Dates: 1912

Latuko

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 261
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Queeny African Expedition, 1950. This film depicts the Latuko (i.e. Lotuko) a tribe residing in the province of Equatoria, Sudan. The scenes were unrehearsed but organized thematically around the coming of age of the young man Lonuha. The story takes place in the village of Tirangole, home of the Iago clan, and the daily life of the Latuko is meticulously and beautifully filmed. The women, adorned with goat-skin lappets and ornamental scars on the skin, industriously...
Dates: 1950

Madagascar

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 207
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Davison-Willis Madagascar Expedition, 1953. The three tribes portrayed in this film, the Mahafaly, the Antandroy, and the Vezo, live on the southern and southwestern coast of Madagascar, between Tuleau and St. Dauphin. Following views of Vezo dwellings (houses on stilts built within a fenced area), the people are seen shelling and grinding corn, breast-feeding their children, fishing, and constructing a trano lay made from a sail and mast and used to protect them from...
Dates: 1953

Margaret Mead : a portrait by a friend

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 208
Scope and Contents French filmmaker Jean Rouch interviews AMNH anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead speaks about her personal history, her family, her influences and mentors, and her field work in Bali, New Guinea, and Manus (also known as Great Admiralty Island). Mead and Rouch walk through the AMNH Hall of Pacific Peoples, and she discusses her theories about museum exhibits. They also visit the Dept. of Anthropology specimen storage area. Towards the conclusion of her interview, Mead considers the history of...
Dates: 1978

Masailand

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 262
Scope and Contents Filmed during the Edgar M. Queeny-AMNH African Expedition, 1953. This film was made in Narok, approximately 100 miles west of Nairobi, Kenya. It contains extensive zoological footage, as well as a rich ethnographic portrait of the moran, the warriors of Masai society. The moran are different in appearance from other Masai in that, while Masai shave their heads, the moran braid their hair, grease it heavily and smear it with red ocher; they also wear a sheet of calico knotted over their...
Dates: 1953

Meandering in Africa

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 209
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Akeley African Expedition to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), 1921-1922. This film was made by Carl Akeley, museum taxidermist, inventor, naturalist, and explorer. Akeley wanted to secure gorilla specimens for the museum and undertook this expedition accompanied by several friends of his: Chicago lawyer Herbert Bradley and his wife Mary; Alice, their five-year-old daughter; Alice's nanny, Priscilla Hall; and Akeley's secretary and editor of the film, Martha Miller...
Dates: 1921-1922

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Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
Coles, Charles, 1917-2013 1
Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. 1
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Jansson, Arthur August, 1890-1960 1
Leigh, William Robinson, 1866-1955 1
Myron I. Granger Archaeological Expedition to Peru and Ecuador (1930) 1
Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 1
O'Donnell, Charles Oliver 1
O'Donnell-Clark African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1931) 1
Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
Olson, Ronald L. (Ronald Leroy), 1895-1979 1
Raddatz, Richard 1
Rockwell, Robert H. 1
Runcie Stockhausen, Walter Osborne, 1881-1966 1
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 1
Shippee, Robert 1
Shippee-Johnson Peruvian Expedition (1931) 1
Stout, Clare 1
Stout, Gardner D. 1
Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 1
Wang, Hao-t'ing 1
Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest of the American Museum of Natural History (1927) 1
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