Film Record: Around the Hogan

Identifier:

• 11399 (Source: New Mexico State Archives Online Catalog)

Date produced:

Filmmaker(s):

Sallie Wagner

Country of Production:

United States

Languages:

English

Length:

1 reel (368 ft)

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

New Mexico State Records Center and Archives list of titled amateur films
National Film Preservation Foundation Grant, 2005

Description:

"Un-staged documentary footage shot and edited by Sallie Wagner. Sallie's description of the film: 'Shorty Boys, Little Shorty building a hogan, Crip Chee and his hogan, grandson in doorway. Blackrock in front of hogan, Tchindi, Rose Martin doing laundry, cooking shelter at squaw dance, Hosteen Glish getting water, Bent Knee getting wood, Hosteen Glish making a canoe out of a log, Hosteen Glish's granddaughter weaving, digging yucca root for soap, Navajo washing her hair, Hosteen Glish making a cradle board'." New Mexico State Archives.

Resources:

Shot and edited between 1938-1950.

The Santa Fe New Mexican, December 8, 2006, Z086.

This film is a part of the Sallie Wagner Film Collection held by the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives.

Subjects:

• Art and Recreation
• Cooking
• Ethnology
•      Manners and Customs
•           Family life
• Indigenous peoples
• Locomotion
•      Boats and Boating
•           Canoes and canoeing
• Work
• North America
•      United States

Genre:

• Ethnographic

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Sallie Wagner Film Collection, New Mexico State Records Center and Archives

Screenings:

• Screened at the Santa Fe Film Festival on Oct. 16, 2005: Santa Fe, NM

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