Stripping bark from alders, pounding and chewing bark, preparing fibers, tying fibers in bundles, coloring bundles, attaching bundles to Bear flag pole near Susanville.
Donor:
American Indian Film Project and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
N. America:U.S.;CA
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Collection date:
1960-1965
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
16mm (photographic film size), Black-and-white films (visual works), Motion pictures (moving images), and Motion pictures (visual works)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama