16mm motion picture film

Museum number:
26-649
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21260000649
Alternate number:
Reel 27 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1994
Description:
Yeibeichai Night Chant: Touching seated woman with hoops, chanting, woman puts on beads and blankets, branch of foliage placed on men, woman sits down, shield placed over her face, chanting, children enter, basket on floor, woman kneels over it and washes hair, girl with feather cluster blesses dishes on the floor, everybody eats, shaking blue puffs on the floor.
Donor:
American Indian Film Project and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Lukachukai, Apache County, Arizona
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
December 1963
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
16mm (photographic film size), Black-and-white films (visual works), Motion pictures (moving images), and Motion pictures (visual works)
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Still and motion photography
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled 16mm motion picture film, accession number 26-649, described as Yeibeichai Night Chant: Touching seated woman with hoops, chanting, woman puts on beads and blankets, branch of foliage placed on men, woman sits down, shield placed over her face, chanting, children enter, basket on floor, woman kneels over it and washes hair, girl with feather cluster blesses dishes on the floor, everybody eats, shaking blue puffs on the floor.

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