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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
Views from low-flying airplane, of red sandstone mountains in Arizona, United States

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona as seen from an airplane at low altitude. Tall shadows of the rocks.

Date: 1967
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020982
Red sandstone mountains seen from low flying aircraft in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona, United States

Views of red sandstone mountains and outcroppings from low flying airplane, in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona. Dry rocky terrain. Shadows cast on the ground. Bright sun. Shrubs on the dry land. Big Red Rocks. Monument Valley road through the desert.

Date: 1973
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020984
Construction of the Hoover dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada in the United States

In a 1970 television program, host Lee Marvin talks about Hoover Dam in the Black Canyon on the Colorado River, in between Arizona and Nevada in the United States. Historical scenes from construction of the dam in the early 1930s. Crane lifts a number of workers on a raised platform. Worker comes down the mountain with the help of rope. Workers walk across bridge. Dynamite explosion dislodges rock for dam construction. The Hoover dam under construction. Rock blasting in the dam's diversion tunnels. Construction workers eat food in Anderson's Mess hall. Views of workers dining in the mess hall and the kitchen during food preparation. Includes interviews with workers Joe Kine, Tommy Nelson, and Doug Moore who participated in construction. Later aerial views of the Hoover Dam around 1970.

Date: 1933
Duration: 4 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023505
Wrecked USS Arizona (BB-39) in Pearl Harbor after Japanese air raid during World War II.

Wrecked ships and planes at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii a day after Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Foremast of USS Arizona (BB-39) torn and twisted. Damaged USN (United States Navy) PB2Y Coronado flying boat and other planes. Damaged hangar in the background. A tug alongside a wrecked foremast of Arizona.

Date: 1941, December 9
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074705
Quarry mines at Sacramento Hill in Bisbee, Arizona and open-pit mines at Ruth, Nevada, in United States.

Quarrying operations done on Sacramento Hill at Bisbee in Arizona. View of open- cut mining at the hillside. An open-pit mining site at Ruth, Nevada. Copper mining at the site.

Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030404