The motion picture camera is here shown as it stood ready to undertake on of the strangest jobs ever assigned to it--the photographing of a language. In front of the camera area seen some of the Indian chiefs who met in a special council at Browning, Montana, to provide a permanent photographic record of their significant hand-wavings.

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

The motion picture camera is here shown as it stood ready to undertake on of the strangest jobs ever assigned to it--the photographing of a language. In front of the camera area seen some of the Indian chiefs who met in a special council at Browning, Montana, to provide a permanent photographic record of their significant hand-wavings.

[ca. September 1930]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Indians: Misc.

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