Film Record: Navajo Seasons

Identifier:

• 11408 (Source: New Mexico State Archives Online Catalog)

Date produced:

Filmmaker(s):

Sallie Wagner

Country of Production:

United States

Languages:

English

Length:

1 reel (375 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: 'Wide Ruins and area, farming Navajos, Black Rock - Medicine Man, Cut Hair plowing, Joe Toddy following Cut Hair, planting, Patsy Martin standing on Cultivator, Jim House's wife husking corn, Paul Jones helping husk corn, sheep dipping at Ganado, Dwight Wagner viewing sheep dipping, wool shearing at Wide Ruins, loading sheep at Chambers, tall man in tan outfit Bill Cousins, Bent Knee sitting on fence, Crip Chee's grandson in closing scene'." New Mexico States Archives.

Resources:

Shot and edited between 1938-1950.

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

Locations:

• Chambers, Arizona (Filming)
• Ganado, Arizona (Filming)
• Wide Ruins, Arizona (Filming)

Subjects:

• Agriculture
• Ethnology
•      Manners and Customs
•           Family life
• Indigenous peoples
• Industries
• Seasons
• Work
• North America
•      United States
•           Arizona

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 in 2005: Santa Fe, NM

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