Ethel Cutler Freeman films
name: label: Creator
content: Freeman, Ethel Cutler, 1886-1972
place: label: Place
content: Africa, Central
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content: Africa, East
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content: Africa, North
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content: Africa, Southern
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content: North America
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content: South Africa
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content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
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content: Egypt
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content: Kenya
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content: Malawi
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content: Florida
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content: Uganda
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred from the National Anthropological Archives in 1986.
creator: label: Creator
content: Freeman, Ethel Cutler, 1886-1972
culture: label: Culture
content: Seminole
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content: Ethel Cutler Freeman films
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ethel Cutler Freeman (1886-1972) was an amateur Seminole specialist and a research associate with the American Museum of Natural History. Along with her work among the Seminoles of Florida, Freeman conducted studies and wrote papers relating to her field work among the Arapaho, Hopi, Kickapoo, Navaho, Pueblo, Shosoni, and the people of the Virgin Islands, Bahamas and Haiti. Her travel to Africa included study of the music and chants of the Masai, Zulu, and Pygmies.  Freeman served on the Hoover Commission's study group for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Film reels (3 hours 40 minutes, color silent, 16mm; 6900 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940-1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1986.11F
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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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: Collection consists of films shot in Africa and Florida by Ethel Cutler Freeman.  The films form part of the Ethel Cutler Freeman papers in the National Anthropological Archives.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the Ethel Cutler Freeman papers.