River Basin Surveys Footage
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1983.13.2
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966
label: Collection Creator
content: River Basin Surveys
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content: River Basin Survey films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Film reels (black-and-white silent; 2,370 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1941
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: Footage duplicates [Frank Roberts' Footage of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, ca. 1932], [Frank Roberts' Footage of Allantown, Arizona, 1930-1933], Frank Roberts' Footage of Shiloh National Military Park, Tennesee, ca. 1933-1934] and [Frank Roberts' Footage of Zuni, New Mexico, ca. 1931] and contains unique footage which is believed to be of the Smithsonian Institution salvage archeology project in the Missouri River Basin.  This footage contains exavation techniques, uncovering human skeletons, and leisure activities of site wrokers.  For further description, see entries of the four titles listed above.  This footage forms part of the Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys Records in the National Anthropological Archives.