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Sioux_ghost_dance,_1894.ogv (Ogg Theora video file, length 24 s, 320 × 240 pixels, 1.37 Mbps, file size: 3.98 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
The Sioux Ghost Dance film offers non-natives an inaccurate depiction of the Ghost Dance. In the film there is a drum, but the dance itself does not include instruments. The dancer's heads are face downwards, hands are holding pipes and moving their feet in a fast-paced motion, whereas the original dance is slow, hands are held together, and ...
According to Edison film historian C. Musser, this film and others shot on the same day (see also Sioux ghost dance) featured Native American Indian dancers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and constitutes the American Indian's first appearance before a motion picture camera. Filmed September 24, 1894, in Edison's Black Maria studio.
Buffalo Dance is an 1894 black-and-white silent film from Edison Studios, produced by William K. L. Dickson with William Heise as cinematographer. Filmed on a single reel, using standard 35 mm gauge, it has a 16-second runtime. The film, with English intertitles, was shot in Edison's Black Maria studio at the same time as Sioux Ghost Dance. [1]
Oriental Dance, starring Rosa; The Pickaninny Dance, from the 'Passing Show', starring Joe Rastus, Denny Tolliver and Walter Wilkins; Rat Killing; Rats and Terrier No. 2; Rats and Terrier No. 3; Rats and Weasel; Ruth Dennis, starring Ruth St. Denis; Sandow, starring Eugen Sandow; Sheik Hadji Tahar, starring Sheik Hadji Tahar; Sioux Ghost Dance
The Ghost Dance ceremony began as part of a Native American religious movement in 1889. It was initiated by the Paiute religious leader Wovoka, after a vision in which Wovoka said Wakan Tanka (Lakota orthography: Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka, usually translated as Great Spirit) spoke to him and told him directly that the ghost of Native American ancestors would come back to live in peace with the ...
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