"Tzintzuntzan: The Tarascan Indians Re-enact the Passion Play at Tzintuztan"

sova.nmai.ac.429_ref5

Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Harry Wright's ethnographic films from Mexico, NMAI.AC.429; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.

Content Warning: Please note that the language and terminology used in these films reflects the context and culture of the time of its creation and includes what is considered derogatory and harmful language today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.

Collection Restrictions: Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.

NMAI.AC.429_ref5

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv41c2707e1-10b3-4ec3-839d-f7b4e044c789

NMAI.AC.429

NMAIA

Harry Wright's ethnographic films from Mexico

Producer

Wright, Harry, 1876-1954

Summary

This collection includes 13 16mm films, consisting of 38 reels, produced by Harry Wright and filmed by Edwin Myers between 1939-1940 among the Yoeme (Yaqui), Lacandon Maya, Purepecha (Tarasco), Oxchuc Tzeltal Maya (Occucero), Tzotzil Maya, Chamula Maya, Lachiguiri Zapotec [Tehuantepec], and Tacuate communities. These were part of two series' titled The Harry Wright Ethnographic Series: Indian Trib...