Films of Black Hills rodeo and Dog Feast
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1988.10.1
name: label: Names
content: Black Elk, Ben
label: Names
content: Roan Bear, Chief
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Rodeo performers
label: Topic
content: Rodeos
label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from the Red Cloud Indian School Heritage Center in 1988.
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne River Lakota Sioux
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (16 minutes, color silent; 366 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938
label: Date
content: 1942
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Black Hills Rodeo, South Dakota, 1938 and Dog Feast, 1942."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1988.10
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 taken at a July 4th rodeo in Belle Fourche, South Dakota. Parade shots at the rodeo include Ben Black Elk in buckskins and war bonnet and truncated versions of the war and kettle dance as well as a fancy dancer. Footage also includes a Sioux Indian Dog feast held by Chief Roan Bear at the Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota, showing preparation of a shunka (dog) accompanied by cooking of buffalo meat, tipsina (Indian turnip), radishes, and other vegetables.

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