| MOHAWK CAMP American boys learn Native American Indian customs and dances at a camp | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6028 |
| Catalog #: | 19623 | |
| Clip Number: | 19623-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 298 | |
| Timecode: | 01:32:51 - 01:35:50 | |
| Location: | Salisbury, Wiltshire. | |
| Year Shot: | 1960 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: Playing BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Sterotypes CULTURAL GROUPS/NATIVE AMERICANS: General ENTERTAINMENT/DANCE: Ethnic / Cultural HOBBIES: Crafts, Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Wiltshire RECREATION: Camping | |
| Description: | MOHAWK CAMP American boys learn Native American Indian customs and dances at a camp M/S of a group of boys walking along a country road with two leaders; pan right to show a sign reading 'Camp Mohawk / American Youth Camp' with a painting of a Native American Indian. M/S of two young boys sitting at a table outside; they are carving wooden figures; C/U of painted American Indian figures on the table; commentator tells us the boys are at a camp in Salisbury, Wiltshire. M/Ss of two leaders painting and carving wooden totem poles; a younger boy examines the carving. M/Ss and C/Us of boys eating at long picnic tables outside from army style mess tins. Commentator says "these boys are all children of American servicemen in the United Kingdom". One boy spoons some red jelly into his tin. The boys sitting around a camp fire with Chief Rising Sun (in full regalia), alias Bill Hargrove of the US Special Services Division who started the camp in 1956. Some of the boys roast sausages over the fire - a weenie roast! One small boy is seen eating his sausage and making a funny face. M/S of five men dressed as American Indians (Native American, First Nations) outside a wigwam; one of them beats on a large drum. The boys sit and watch as a man does the Dying Eagle Dance in a costume of white feathered wings. C/U of a young man with a mohican hairpiece, face paint and decorated headband. The 'eagle' dances round the fire and eventually 'dies'; the boys look on disinterestedly; some of the others in costume start to do the Chippawah Brave War Dance; the Mohican taps his feet - he has bells on his ankles. Great C/U of boys watching; one (who looks very American with crew-cut hair) rests his chin on his hands and looks incredibly bored with open mouth; the other is of Oriental origin. The dancers get the boys to join in and they all dance round the camp fire whooping. C/U of a Native American Indian sign reading 'Namassakett Chapter England'. M/S from outside the camp gate of the boys dancing round - one poor little boy in red keeps falling over. (Be careful of sterotypes in this story. Very little of this material is any where close to the truth about Native American traditions.) | |
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