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Show The Heye Foundation Film During the summer of 1923 10,000 feet of film was made of Zuni arts, crafts and ceremonies. Supported by James B. Ford, the film was sponsored by the Museum of the American Indian, which also was supporting an archaeological excavation on the reservation at the time. 147 Realizing the need of graphically recording the activities of a typical Pueblo tribe while the opportunity still exists, Mr. Ford not only presented to the Museum the necessary apparatus for making and projecting the pictures, but met the expenses of the Zuni expedition. The work was done by Mr. Owen Cattell, assisted by Mr. Donald A. Cadzow of the Museum, and by Lorenzo Chavez, a Zuni Indian. Film was taken of two Rain Dances and of the ceremony conducted at one of the springs at Ojo Caliente by Kolhu/wala:wa pilgrims. William C. Orchard, also on the staff of the Museum of the American Indian, built a model of the Zuni Village, complete with a Zuni dancers performing the dance that is presented after the pilgrimage, either the quadrennial trip to Kolhu/wala:wa or the off-year trek to the Ojo Caliente spring. 148 The approximately 20 minute silent film, entitled "The Rain Ceremony," began by showing Zuni religious leaders reaching the sacred Spring at Ojo Caliente on 147. "Motion Pictures at Zuni," Indian Notes, Volume One, Number One, January, 1924, The Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation), p. 29-30. 148. "A Zuni Model," Indian Notes, Volume One, Number One, January, 1924, The Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation), p. 30-34. - 97 - |
