Victor and Christine Romero film of Allan Houser

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Victor and Christine Romero film of Allan Houser

May 12, 1992

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.401

This collection contains an unpublished documentary film shot on May 12, 1992 that depicts an interview with artist Allan Houser [Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache (New Mexico)] discussing his remembrances of painting murals at the U.S. Department of the Interior headquarters in Washington, DC in 1939-1940. The film was shot by Victor Romero (Isleta Pueblo) and Christine Romero.

6 Film reels (16mm); 3 Sound tape reels (1/4 inch); 5 Videocassettes (Betacam); 0.25 Linear feet

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658028

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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Houser, Allan, 1914-1994

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Allan Houser was born Allan Capron Haozous on June 30, 1914. Houser’s parents, Sam and Blossom Haozous, belonged to the Chiricahua Apache tribe; Sam’s father was first cousin to the legendary Apache leader Geronimo. In 1934 Houser left Oklahoma to study at Dorothy Dunn's Art Studio at the Santa Fe Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1937, Allan had his first solo exhibition at the Museum of New Mexico. Within two years of graduating from the Indian School, he had already shown his work a...

United States Department of the Interior

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Romero, Victor

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Romero, Christine Solinski

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