Hugh Milton Miller Film Collection, 1940-1964.

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Hugh Milton Miller Film Collection, 1940-1964.

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The films in the Indian Dances of New Mexico series, 1962-1964 show dances at various New Mexico Pueblos. The Indian dances were filmed from July 1963 to July 1964. The Pueblos represented are Santa Clara, Nambe, San Ildefonso, Tesuque and San Juan (Okhay Owingeh). The original films are 8mm, some color, some in black and white, all silent. These films were originally part of the Archive of Southwestern Music, University of New Mexico. The films in the Personal Home Movies series, 1940-1950, show scenes from various locations in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and California. The Millers traveled by car and trailer to such places as the Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, San Diego Bay, Tucson, Carlsbad, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Preserve and Catalina Recreation Area in the Coronado National Forest. Local areas in New Mexico include Bernalillo, Jemez Mountains, and other areas in Sandoval County. There are images of logging, ships, trains, motels, saguaro cactus, sheep, cattle, donkeys, buffalo and horses at a rodeo in Tucson, Arizona. The two reels from this series that were not converted to digital contain footage of locations in Florida in the 1950s.

1 folder of 3 DVDs (3 hr. 12 min.)

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Miller, Hugh Milton, 1908-1986

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Hugh Miller received his BA from the University of Oregon and MA and PhD from Harvard. In 1947 he became professor of Music and Chairman of the Department of Music at the University of New Mexico. During 1958 he was a Fulbright Lecturer at Auckland University, New Zealand. In the late 1950s to early 1960s Dr. Miller documented Pueblo Indian dances on film. This was done with appropriate permission from the Pueblos. He was assisted by Donald L. Roberts, who worked at the University of New Mexico,...

Roberts, Donald Llewellyn

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Donald L. Roberts was born in 1938 and grew up in Dodge City, Kansas. He attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and received a degree in music theory in Kansas. He graduated with a Masters in Ethnomusicology in 1963 from the University of Michigan. Roberts worked at the University of New Mexico, Fine Arts Library, 1963-1968. In 1964, he helped establish the Archives of Southwestern Music at the Fine Arts Library. Roberts was active in many library and mu...