Glimpses of Life Among the Catawba and Cherokee Indians of the Carolinas (1927)

Title cards are off-center (parallax problems at time of filming)Note that reel two with the Cherokee is not in this transfer. United States -- North and South Carolina. Notes from From Wes Taukchiray report to the Smithsonian in 1974/5 - Children line up to go into school building, snowball fight. Sam Blue and another Catawba man doing the bear dance. Another dance called the wild goose chase. Bow and arrow. Rabbit hopping away. Long close-up of Elsie Blue (Youngest daughter of Chief Sam Blue). Close up of Bertha George Harris and Evelyn Brown. Snowballs. More close-ups -- Vera Blue and girl, Elsie Blue again, Sam Blue's wife Louisa Blue. Sam Blue and his half-sister Sally Gordon (the last two speakers of the Catawba language at that time). Sam Blue and a Mormon elder in front of house. Edith Brown and Evelyn Brown. Man with blowgun. D.A. Harris. Joe Sanders; with a blowgun; he goes up a hill. Blowing medicine through a cane blowgun onto a little g