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Indian dance -- North America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

A Year's calender of Indian dances., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-4-9 7
Scope and Contents A list giving the dates and places of Indian dances in New Mexico.
Dates: 1936-1940

A year's calender of Indian dances., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-4-16 18
Scope and Contents Schedule of Indian dance ceremonials in New Mexico and Arizona.
Dates: 1936-1940

Hugh Milton Miller Film Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-809-SC
Abstract The Hugh Milton Miller Film Collection consists of 13 reels of film, of which 11 have been converted to DVD. Three of these films are of tourist sights in the American Southwest including New Mexico and Arizona. The other eight films are of Pueblo dances.
Dates: 1940-1964

Inter-Tribal Ceremonial Association Sound Recordings of the 44th Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial

 Collection
Identifier: MU-6
Scope and Content This collection contains 36 sound tapes of ceremonial dances recorded in the field during the 44th Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, held in Gallup, N.M., August 12-15, 1965. The tapes contain music from Native American peoples from Mexico and across the United States, including the Southwest, Plains, Pacific Coast and Southeast. Twenty eight tribes are represented in the collection which has been arranged alphabetically by tribe. Also on the tapes there are descriptions of the types of dances...
Dates: August 12-15, 1965

James B. Wright Collection of Southwestern Native American and Hispanic Music, Interviews and Literary Programs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-829-BC
Abstract This broad collection contains traditional Southwestern Native American and Hispanic folk music, and popular music, dances, poetry readings and interviews collected in the 1970s and 1980s. Also included are Spanish medieval music, a Belen Los Pastores presentation, Matachines music from Tortugas, a Corrales history pageant, Anglo American country western songs and fiddle tunes, Laotian songs from Albuquerque, and a lecture by John Donald Robb.
Dates: 1973-1986

Los Matachines. Lorin Brown, collector., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-4-9 12
Scope and Contents Description of a dance brought from old Mexico that is now performed in New Mexico by the Indians.
Dates: 1936-1940

Odd S. Halseth Collection of Native American Social Songs and Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: MU-22
Abstract This collection consists of 278 sound recordings made in 1950 and 1965. It contains social songs, dances, violin and vocal presentations, oral history interviews and commentaries about Native American customs, social life, ceremonies and rituals.
Dates: 1950-1965

Santa Fe Fiesta: Matachina dance; Zuni harvest dance; De Vargas pageant; parade floats, 1921

 File — Box 79, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents Black & white prints of Santa Fe Fiesta celebrations, circa 1920-1921, by photographers H.C. Tibbitts (based in San Francisco, CA) and A.J. Baker (based in Portland, OR).
Dates: 1921