Winter Count

"Winter Count" Made by Stephen Rivkin This film was made with funds from the United States Information Agency's Young Filmmakers Bicentennial Grant Project. Creator(s): U.S. Information Agency. 1982-10/1/1999 (Most Recent) Series: Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities , 1982 - 1999 Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900 - 2003 Scope & Content: This Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant film, narrated by an elderly Indian woman, shows how Dakota Indians pictorially recorded their calendar histories on buffalo hides, called "winter counts." Production Date: 1975 Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Phone: 301-837-3540, Fax: 301-837-3620, Email: [email protected] National Archives Identifier: 55037 Local Identifier: 306.10034 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55037