Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1983.6.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Dixon, Joseph K. (Joseph Kossuth) (1856-1926)
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content: Films of the Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (31 minutes, black-and-white silent; 1128 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1908
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: Outtakes of a film shot during an expedition to Crow Agency, Montana, sponsored by department store magnate Rodman Wanamaker. Included are scenes of a mission school where young women were educated, a give-away in which young men are honored with gifts, a Crow Fair encampment where people come together to observe and participate in various activities, a horse procession in which the horses and riders are adorned with headdresses, and 19th- and 20th- century Crow leader, Chief Pleny Coups. A reenactment of the Battle of Little Big Horn at Custer's battlefield is filmed in which some of the participants were also present during the actual battle.