John Canfield Ewers films
name: label: Names
content: Houser, Allan, 1914-1994
place: label: Place
content: North America
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from the National Anthropological Archives in 1999.
culture: label: Culture
content: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (1 hour, color silent; 1,400 feet, 16mm)
label: Extent
content: 1 Video recording (VHS)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1945-1993
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously part of the John Canfield Ewers Papers, National Anthropological Archives.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1999.09
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Video recordings
label: Type
content: Silent films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Dates inferred from dates of John Canfield Ewers Papers.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Amateur film on the Blackfoot Indians and video with various footage relating to Allan Houser, a Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter and book illustrator.

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