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CLASSIFIED SUBJECT LIST 970.1 NAVAJO COUNTRY— Continued Indians illustrate the relationship between the people and their land. Livestock grazing, rug making, and jewelry making are seen in the light of environmental influences EFLA evaluation card No. 1363 NAVAJO INDIAN. Coronet 1943 lOmin sd b&w color $80 970.1 p-el-jh-sh-ad Guide Educationl consultant: Dean Wendell W. Wright, Indiana University Portrays the Navajo daily life. Shows arts and crafts — especially silver work and weaving. Native habitat, customs and ceremonies are interwoven into the story LC card FiA 52-2135 NAVAJO INDIANS. EBF 1939 llmin sd b&w (World's people ser) $50, rent $2.50 970.1 Jh-sh Guide Educational consultant: Clark Wissler, American Museum of Natural History Portrays the Navajos in their native environment, engaged in such activities as building a home, tilling the soil, tending sheep, carding the wool, and weaving it into colorful blankets. Also barter at a local trading post, the performance of native dances, a marriage ceremony, and a wedding feast. The story centers around Taska and Alnaba, a young Navajo couple who are betrothed NAVAJO INDIANS OF THE PAINTED DESERT. Bailey 1948 llmin sd b&w $40 970.1 el-jh-sh Guide An Allen and Allen production A story of the primitive Navajo Indians of the Painted Desert of northern Arizona. Shows the strange mode of life of these nomads, their weird beliefs and superstitions, their fear of night witches and demons. Includes scenes of shepherd boys guarding their flocks with bow and arrow and intimate scenes of family life LC card FiA 52-726 NAVAJO LAND. SantaFeRwy 1942 lOmin sd color free -loan 970.1 sh-c-ad The problems which face the Navajo nation today and sidelights on its history and traditions NAVAJO NIGHT WATCH. Allen 1948 llmin sd b&w $40 970.1 Jh-sh The intimate family life of the most colorful nomads of the desert, the Navajos, including their superstitions, fears, and beliefs about certain wild animals NAVAJO SANDPAINTERS. SantaFeRwy 1941 22min sd color free-loan 970.1 * p-el-Jh The Navajo native healing ritual of sand painting, beginning with the patient's contact with the medicine man, following through with the preparation for the painting and its executions, the healing ceremony, and closing with the destruction of the painting, as is the custom, at sundown PAINTING WITH SAND; A NAVAJO CEREMONY. EBF 1950 llmin sd color $100, rent $4 970.1 el-Jh Guide Educational consultant: Clyde Kluckhon, Harvard University Portrays the traditional sand painting healing rite as performed by a Navajo medicine man for his ailing son. Reveals the beauty of a unique art form, and stresses its significance in the tribal life of the Navajos. Actual sand painting in full detail is shown EFLA evaluation card No. 923 See also review in Sat. Rev. of Literature, July 8, 1950 PEACEFUL ONES. AvalonDaggettProd 1952 12min sd b&w $50, color flOO 970.1 el-jh-sh Guide Describes the traditions and culture of the Hopi Indians. Stresses the man's role in the matriarchal type of society LC card Fi 52-280 PEOPLE OF THE POTLATCH. CanNFB 1944 22min sd color $150, rent $6 970.1 el-jh-sh Scenic shots from Puget Sound to Alaska are followed by sequences showing the life of the West Coast Indians. Includes their hunting and fishing, costumes, ceremonial observances feasts, dances, music, and totems. The Potlatch is a marriage feast which also Is an institution of importance in the social and economic life of the community PUEBLO ARTS. MinnU 1952 lOmin sd color $90 970.1 el-Jh-sh-c-ad Produced by the University's AudioVisual Education Service The Arts and crafts of the Pueblo Indians and the Pueblo himself, shown in his native surroundings PUEBLO BOY. Ford 1947 25min sd color (Americans at home ser) free -loan 970.1 * el-jh-sh The story of a young Indian boy being instructed in the ancient and modern ways, habits, traditions and cultures of his people, the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Presents some Pueblo dances and ceremonies believed never to have been photographed or recorded before LC card FiA 52-307 See also review in Sat. Rev. of Literature, Mar. 12, 1949 PUEBLO DWELLERS. EBF 1931 15min si b&w $24 970.1 jh-sh Produced by Eastman Classroom Films, Inc. Pictures the home life of the Pueblos of New Mexico, showing an Indian village, adobe dwellings, method of planting corn, squaws preparing tortillas, baking in an outdoor oven, basket-weaving, pottery-making, ceremonial dances and a government Indian school PUEBLO HERITAGE. Shllin.Alan 1950 20min sd b&w and color free-loan 970.1 p-el-Jh-sh-c-ad Sponsored by the P. Lorillard Co. Made with the cooperation of the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Park Service Traces the history of the Pueblo peoples from Mesa Verde to the present pueblos — ^with emphasis on Taos, Acoma, and Zuni. Concludes v^rith scenes of the Gallup Indian Ceremonials See also review in Sat. Rev. of Literature, May 26, 1951 PUEBLO INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST. Hunt.E.P. 1941 (rev. 1947) 85min si color $400 970.1 el-Jh-sh The Indian life and ceremonies at Hopi villages-Jemez, Zuni, Taos, Sam Ildefonso. Indian dances. Home life. Pottery making by Marie Martinez QUILLAYUTE STORY. OlympicFlmDistrib 1951 25min sd color $210 970.1 el-Jh-sh-c-ad Produced by Juel Lange. Narrated from a script prepared by Erna Gunther, University of Washington Portrays how the Quillayute Indians of Washington have adapted themselves to their environment, treats their handicraft activities, sports festivals, games, dances, fishing, agriculture, and religious worship 993