The Romance of a Vanishing Race
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 2006.3.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Rodman Wanamaker Expedition
label: Collection Creator
content: Dixon, Joseph K. (Joseph Kossuth) (1856-1926)
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content: Rodman Wanamaker Expedition films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white silent; 1030 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1916
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film shot by Joseph K. Dixon who was financed by department store magnate Rodman Wanamaker to lead expeditions to the west photographing and filming American Indians.  Footage documents Plains, Pueblo, Navajo, Havasupai, Hopi and Crow American Indians.  Footage includes erecting teepee; women carrying firewood ; grinding corn in metati bins and baking bread in outdoor stone ovens; Navajo hogans; woman tanning game hides; man weaving basket; women carrying bags of water; and woman combing her hair.  Film ends with a quasi-fictional story of a Plains Indian, Ba-ta-che-se, sharing a peace pipe with two medicine men when he has a vision of an enemy attack.  He takes a ceremonial sweat bath prepared by women and then engages in the battle of his vision.