River Basin Survey films
name: label: Creator
content: Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966
label: Creator
content: River Basin Surveys
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Central America
label: Place
content: Mexico
label: Place
content: New Mexico
label: Place
content: Tennessee (Ill.)
label: Place
content: Arizona
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred from the National Anthropological Archives in 1983.
creator: label: Creator
content: Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966
label: Creator
content: River Basin Surveys
culture: label: Culture
content: A:shiwi (Zuni)
label: Culture
content: Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Mayas
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content: River Basin Survey films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (black-and-white silent, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1931-1941
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1983.13A
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 duplicates [Frank Roberts' Footage of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, c. 1932] refer to 86.12.4 RF, [Frank Roberts' Footage of Allantown, Arizona, 1930-1933] refer to 86.12.3 1-2 RF, [Frank Roberts' Footage of Shiloh National Military Park, Tennesee, c. 1933-1934] refer to 86.12.2 RF, and [Frank Roberts' Footage of Zuni, New Mexico, c. 1931] refer to 86.12.5 RF. Also contains footage of the Smithsonian sponsored Missouri River Basin Salvage Archaeology Project conducted by Frank H.H. Roberts. Documented are the large-scale excavations at the Lindenmeier site in northern Colorado. Evidence for PaleoIndian occupation of the area shown in the film includes fossilized bison skeletal remains and Folsom projectile points. For further description, see entries of the four titles listed above. This footage forms part of the Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys Records in the National Anthropological Archives.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Human Studies Film Archives also holds the Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr. films (HSFA.1986.12), which contain his films documenting archaeological field work in the Tennessee and Arizona, Zuni pueblo and the surrounding landscape in New Mexico, and Chichen Itza in Mexico.