Henry Bascom Collins films of Yupik Eskimo Life, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1982.6.1
name: label: Creator
content: Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
label: Filmmaker
content: Ford, James Alfred, 1911-1968
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Saint Lawrence Island (Alaska)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from the National Anthropological Archives in 1982.
creator: label: Creator
content: Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
label: Filmmaker
content: Ford, James Alfred, 1911-1968
culture: label: Culture
content: Siberian Yupik [Gambell, St. Lawrence Island]
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (black-and-white silent; 2000 feet, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1930
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Yupik Eskimo Life, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska ca. 1930."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1982.06
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage taken by Smithsonian anthropologist Henry Collins and his assistant James Ford in the summer of 1930, Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Shots include Eskimos in boats; three men positioning themselves in boulders along seacliffs to catch birds with pole net; dancing and drumming; fishing with both lines and nets; dog teams; the preparation of a walrus skin strecthed out on large frame; men hauling boats overland with the use of dog teams; scenes of the hunting environment including shots of whales, walruses, and polar bear; butchering of a whale and walrus; reindeer being herded into a corral; ships navigating in icy waters and locked in ice; miscellaneous scenes in Washington D.C. in the 1930s with shots of a house burning.  Collection includes synchronous sound annotation.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the papers of Henry Bascom Collins and James Alfred Ford.