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Native American Indian pow-wow event in Flagstaff; Indian people on reservations; cowboys roping and branding cattle in Arizona

Exterior view of Lowell Observatory building in Flagstaff, Arizona. People exiting a main building of the Arizona State Teachers College. Color film scenes from the annual Native American All-Indian Pow-Wow parade circa 1939 in Flagstaff, Arizona. Citizens line the parade route street and native American Indian Men in traditional regalia walk and dance traditional Indian dances on the streets of Flagstaff, Arizona during the Pow Wow. People watch on the sides of the parade route. A native American Indian Apache tribe woman with her young baby in a traditional wrapping. Close-up of an old Apache Indian woman who leans on a cane. The elderly native American woman then smiles and laughs. Cattle herds on a field. Apache horsemen and cowboys on horses work among the herd. Close views of cattle and calfs. Cowboys rope and lasso cattle. View of a burning fire and brands heating in the fire. Cowboys turn a cow on its side and cowboy brings a hot brand to brand the cattle.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027898
Lifestyle of Hopi Indian people at Oraibi, Arizona, and Navajo Indian people in Monument Valley area of Arizona

Native American Indian people of the Hopi people are shown living in Oraibi, Arizona in the late 1930s. Lifestyle of the Hope people. A woman climbs the stairs of a traditional Hopi dwelling, unchanged by modern civilization. Construction of houses is seen. Hopi women fashion pottery in an ancient village, while kneeling on a blanket on the ground. They shape bowls by hand. Completed Hopi bowls and vases, and ceremonial mats and baskets are shown. A man paints religious dolls known as Kachina dolls, each a replica of costumes worn during religious ceremonies. Children play with the dolls. Indian men work at a mining site, but they are constrasted with many Indian men who choose their traditional way of life. A Navajo American Indian man riding a horse passes near monuments and natural rock formations in the Monument Valley area of Arizona. A young navajo girl herds sheep and goats with Monument Valley rock formations in background, showing how children assist the tribe. Arid lands needing irrigation are shown, and narrator discusses need for irrigation to support growth of the Navajo nation. A Navajo brush shelter dwelling is shown, typical of those erected by the nomadic Navajo following their grazing animals from place to place. Navajo woman grinds corn in traditional manner by hand with a stone. Two Navajo boys watch her. A navajo woman wearing turquoise and silver jewelry. A navajo woman makes a rug by hand, using wool from Navajo sheep. The rug weaver follows no drawn pattern and uses her memory only to make the pattern. Prehistoric Native American Indian dwellings in the Canyon de Chelly are shown, protected as National Monuments, and originally home to ancient Navajo and Anasazi Pueblo people. An anthropologist participating in excavation at the Canyon de Chelly examines a piece of pottery. Scientists at a Canyon de Chelly ruin from end of 11th century AD extract a core sample from timber to determine the year of the dwelling construction by wood growth rate pattern.

Date: 1939
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027899
U.S. Navy Task Group led by USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) tows captured German submarine (U-505) to Bermuda

A Task Group of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet captures and tows a German Submarine (U-505) to Bermuda. Views of captured German crew members being rescued. Destroyer USS Pillsbury passing a line to the U.S. boarding party aboard the U-505, which then collides with the Pillsbury, damaging her hull, and must be cut loose. Because a destroyer appears unable to tow the sea laden submarine, the USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) does so herself. Views of captured German crew members exercising and bathing on deck of the Guadalcanal. View of the U-505 flying the American flag and entering harbor in Bermuda, on June 19, 1944..

Date: 1944
Duration: 6 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027931
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter, Campbell, makes temporary repairs, at sea, after collision with German submarine U-606 in World War II

Canadian corvette HMCS Dauphin (K 157) seen from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter George W Campbell, as the Campbell makes temporary repairs at sea, following collision with German submarine U-606, during World War 2. Crew of the Campbell lowering heavy canvas over the side to staunch flow of water into her engine room from the collision. Crew members look over her side as others place the canvas into position. Coastguardsmen swarm over the canvas as they nail it fast to the deck. Crew members run lines up over the ship's side to secure the repair tight against the hull. Crew tilt a fabricated cofferdam and lower it overboard, where it is then seen floating next to the ship. Two crewmen in rubber gear stand on the raft and use poles to stuff material into the gashed hull. Ship's crew runs to starboard to tilt the port hull up for repair crew.Then they run to the port side. Officers make final check on a diver in rubber suit, who then descends side of the ship on a rope ladder. Another diver, sans suit, descends the ladder. Divers back on deck after completing work. Officer on the Campbell hailing a merchantman on a megaphone as she comes abeam, underway. The HMCS Dauphin providing protection for the Campbell. Crew of Campbell securing the cofferdam in place. All hands pulling on lines with block and tackle to tighten the repairs in place.

Date: 1943, February 25
Duration: 4 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027941
Crash landings of Navy airplanes on USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91) during training in waters off Hawaii, 1944

Documentation of crash landings,of Gruman Wildcat (F4F) airplanes,on the USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91) during a training cruise, off Hawaii, in 1944. One almost veers off the deck completely, and one the involves a nose-over. In one instance, the pilot comes in too hot, on one wheel, and prudently executes a "go around" for another try.

Date: 1944, November
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027966
U.S.Navy airplanes crash landing on USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91) during training cruise off Hawaii, in 1944.

Scenes of three Navy Grumman wildcat (F4F) airplanes crash landing on the USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91) during a training cruise off Hawaii, in 1944. One lands long and hot and falls off the end of the flight deck, into the water. Another catches left wing on edge of flight deck. And, still, another noses over and its turning propeller chews up the flight deck. ( A following airplane breaks off its approach at this time.)

Date: 1944, November
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027967