John Steelquist film of the Tarahumara
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1998.4.1
name: label: Creator
content: Steelquist, John
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Mexico
label: Place
content: Tarahumara Mountains (Mexico)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Eric Hostetter in 1998.
creator: label: Creator
content: Steelquist, John
culture: label: Culture
content: Rarámuri (Tarahumara)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (2 hours 30 minutes, black-and-white silent; 4,000 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1998.04
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage documents travel in Sierra Madre Mountains in northern Mexico and shows daily activities of the Tarahumara Indians and a Jesuit mission in the Tarahumara village of Sisoguichi. Footage also features head of Jesuit mission Padre Luis G. Verplancken, S.J. The edited television program "Pillars of the World" was constructed from this footage and contemporary footage shot in the same area.

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