Peggy White Wellknown Buffalo & Susie Kelly NMAI Crow Heritage Collection

Between 2001 and 2008, Peggy Wellknown Buffalo of the Crow Tribe, and Susan Kelly led seven trips with elders from the Crow reservation in Montana to the National Museum of American Indian, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC to videotape the Crow elders as they examined and described the history and stories about sacred and non-sacred items in the museum. This digital collection includes over 2,000 short, individual tapes of Crow items. Items include headdresses, shields, shirts, rattles, and medicine bundles, among many others.

Provenance

Peggy White Wellknown Buffalo and Susie Kelly filmed the items at the National Museum of American Indian between 2001 and 2008 . In 2019, the films were digitized at the University of Delaware history department and the films divided up into individual short film clips for each item in the collection.