Cheyenne Indian Sun Dance film
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1987.12.1
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Montana
topic: label: Topic
content: Sun Dance
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (silent, color, 250 feet, 16mm)
label: Extent
content: 1 Video recording (11 minutes, silent, color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1937
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1987.12
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Video recordings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage of a northern Cheyenne Sundance probably filmed between the mid- to late 1930s in LameDeer, Montana. Documentation includes encampment and tarp-covered sundance lodge, both exterior and interior shots; male participants taking coals from the lodge fire; dancers with eagle bone whistles; shots of Indian and white spectators; scenes of fancy dance with male dancers in eagle feathered bustles and headdresses; and miscellaneous shots of Indians harvesting root crops and children at play.

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