The Hopi Indian
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1994.21.5
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content: REMC 2 educational film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 338 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1945
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 produced by Coronet Educational Films with the assistance of the United States Department of the Interior documents daily life of the Hopi. Scenes include Hopi family at unidentified Pueblo; Hopi man irrigating beans, hoeing squash, cultivating fruit trees and examining corn field and woman chopping wood, grinding corn and making a very thin rolled bread. Footage also describes and depicts Hopi courtship and wedding activities, including a headwashing ceremony where couple's hair are washed in yucca suds and man weaving wedding clothes on a loom. Sound track records some Hopi speech.