# 1960s HOME MOVIE NATIVE AMERICAN PUEBLOS & DANCES CHIMAYO TAOS GALLUP TESUQUE NEW MEXICO 55904

Shot by an unknown American tourist, this silent, color home movie (with title cards) shows a trip to Chimayo, Tesuque, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Taos Pueblo, and Gallup, New Mexico, including the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial. The film includes footage of Pat Goodnight dancing a war dance, Joe Whitehoop doing the hoop dance and This is circa the late 1960s or early 1970s. Title: Chimayo, in the state of New Mexico, the name derives from a Tewa name for a local landmark, the hill of Tsi Mayoh (:21-:26). A car pulls into a parking spot in front of Ortega's Weaving Shop. A worker inside weaves. Another person weaves using a loom machine. A person, a tourist, looks at the weaved rugs that are available. A man and a woman spread out a rug. People outside hold up rugs. Close on one of the rugs (:27-2:22). Title card: Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico, near Santa Fe. Little houses of the Pueblo people. They are from the Tewa ethnic group of Native Americans and speak the Tewa language. A Native American child, a man (possibly the filmmaker) kneels near him. The tourists look at a woman's wares. Native Americans get dressed and a tourist sets up a film camera to film them. The Natives start dancing. Natives are paired into sets of two, they seem ready to strike one another but do not. The cameraman films another standing on a rock (2:23-5:44). A Native American stands on a rock, smiles at the camera. As one man beats a drum, the others dance around him (5:45-6:35). Title: San Ildefonso…

- Kind: Home movie
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/55904-chimayo-rexfer)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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