Rodman Wanamaker Expedition footage
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 2006.3.2
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; 82 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1913
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: Incomplete edited film (or films) 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 depicts Plains Indian "brave" elaborately dressed wooing a young woman and Blackfeet Indians in front of teepees at the Glacier Park Hotel entertaining hotel guests with dancing and drumming.