| CHIEF LEADING EAGLE President Coolidge is honoured and is given a full Indian headdress and a war dance display. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5371 |
| Catalog #: | 101121 | |
| Clip Number: | 101121-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1426 | |
| Timecode: | 01:30:18 - 01:31:23 | |
| Location: | Deadwood, South Dakota | |
| Year Shot: | 1927 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CULTURAL GROUPS/NATIVE AMERICANS: Sioux FASHION: Ethnic / Cultural LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, South Dakota | |
| Description: | "Chief Leading Eagle". Sioux Indians adopt and invest President Coolidge with full tribal rites." Deadwood, South Dakota United States of America (USA). M/S as the President is dressed in a headdress by a Native American woman watched by men and women in full Indian dress. Long view of Indians performing war dance with long line of motor cars in the background. C/U of Coolidge and Red Indians. M/S more dances, and puffs of smoke, as shots seem to be fired. Coolidge poses for photo in full headdress. Great sequence of dancing and magnificent feathered headdresses. | |
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