Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Rites and ceremonies
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Camping Among the Indians
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 22
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH-Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest, 1927. The AMNH Woodcraft Indian trip was led by Ernest Thompson Seton, the author, and George Clyde Fisher (AMNH curator of visual instruction). The film depicts a variety of dances (the buffalo, hood, war, eagle, corn, deer and snowbird) performed by Indians 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,...
Dates:
1927
