"Oven Building and Bread Baking"

Oven Building and Bread Baking
(1923, 15 min.) US
Black-and-white. Silent.
Produced by: the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation

From a series of films made nearly 100 years ago at the Pueblo of Zuni in New Mexico, this work documents the traditional methods of making a beehive oven, kneading the bread, and baking.

Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI

2011 At the Movies, NYC