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Photo, Print, Drawing Crow Fair and Crow Fair Rodeo: various scenes, includes eagle dance, rodeo competition, swimming in river, night events

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Title

  • Crow Fair and Crow Fair Rodeo: various scenes, includes eagle dance, rodeo competition, swimming in river, night events

Names

  • Stanton, Gary Ward, 1946- (Collector)
  • Johnson, Paula J., 1954- (Collector)
  • Young, Kay, 1931- (Collector)
  • Toelken, Barre, 1935- (Collector)
  • Crummett, Michael, 1948- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Crow Agency, Montana, August 16, 1979 - August 17, 1979

Headings

  • -  Dance costume
  • -  Rodeos
  • -  Indian dance
  • -  Crow Fair Celebration
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Montana -- Crow Agency

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Index data: Image numbers, descriptions: at Crow Fair, Crow Agency MT: 1-6, events at the Crow Fair Rodeo, which the photographer states is "the largest all-Indian rodeo in the country"; 7-9, Crow Indian children cooling down from the afternoon heat in the Little Big Horn River; 10-16, night dancing in the arbor in the center of the fairgrounds; 17-18, the four leaders of the parade perform an eagle dance; 19, singers carrying their drum from the first station to the second; 20, eagle dancers arrive at the second station.

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/005: MT9-MC24

Source Collection

  • Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Stanton, Gary Ward, Paula J Johnson, Kay Young, Barre Toelken, and Michael Crummett. Crow Fair and Crow Fair Rodeo: various scenes, includes eagle dance, rodeo competition, swimming in river, night events. Crow Agency United States Montana, 1979. Crow Agency, Montana, - August 17, 1979. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_mc24/.

APA citation style:

Stanton, G. W., Johnson, P. J., Young, K., Toelken, B. & Crummett, M. (1979) Crow Fair and Crow Fair Rodeo: various scenes, includes eagle dance, rodeo competition, swimming in river, night events. Crow Agency United States Montana, 1979. Crow Agency, Montana, - August 17, 1979. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_mc24/.

MLA citation style:

Stanton, Gary Ward, et al. Crow Fair and Crow Fair Rodeo: various scenes, includes eagle dance, rodeo competition, swimming in river, night events. Crow Agency, Montana, - August 17, 1979. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_mc24/>.