Native American Life: Old Ways
Native American Life: Old Ways
Raw footage of Navajo American Indians herding goats, weaving rugs, cleaning wool, etc, in desert.
Native American Life: Old Ways
TLS goat herd in desert, Native American (Navajo) woman standing behind them; dramatically still sky and rock. Great panning TLS/LSs two American Indian women in traditional Navajo dress sheperding herd of goats and sheep across desert floor, buttes in BG. Panning TLS woman in traditional dress herding animals across dry terrain; she tosses stick at stray black & white goat. TLS two women posing with goats on desert floor. MS old woman, pan right to other woman & two white long-hair goats with horns (bucks). Scenic TLS of desert, buttes, blue sky-- lonesome, desolate. MS/MCUs Navajo woman weaving wool rug at traditional loom, outdoors; CUs hands and thread, weaving Navajo rug at loom.
Native American Life: Old Ways
MS two Native American (Navajo) women brushing and cleaning raw wool while woman in BG weaves rug. MCUs Navajo women smiling while working. MS Caucasian man wearing cowboy hat & smoking cigarette while talking to Navajo American Indian man wearing headband; CU Navajo man with turquoise earring in right ear. MS Navajo woman harvesting roots of desert plant, butte in BG; MS/CUs woman pounding it into mash w/ backend of axe, washing in small bucket, forming a thick soapy foam; she then places a bundle of raw wool in the bucket and scrubs it.
Native American Life: Old Ways
Wide MS three Navajo women & one child cleaning wool in front of traditional mud hut in desert, wool blankets over entrance. MS old Navajo woman rolling flatbread to cook on iron pan on open fire; CU fried bread being taken from pan, raw flatbread placed in oil; CU woman working raw dough, flattening it & placing it in skillet.
Native American Life: Old Ways
Excellent scenic LSs of Monument Valley in Navajo Nation, Arizona-- dramatic mesas, buttes, rock towers & gorges; lonely & desolate desert landscape; some desert vegetation.
Native American Life: Old Ways
TLS/MSs piles of ancient volcanic lava rocks with stange surface patterns. TLS natural sandstone bridge arch. TLS twisted desert tree with yellow leaves. LS two buttes in desert, tree in FG. MSs holes carved naturally into sandstone arch. TLS/LSs mesas & buttes in desert; scenic landscape; some vegetation. MCU/CUs ancient drawings carved onto desert stones (petroglyphs). TLS hole in natural sandstone arch.