TOHONO O’ODHAM TRIBE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS TUCSON, ARIZONA U.S. GOVERNMENT FILM 88304

This is a color film showcases the Tohono O’odham people. University of Arizona, Tucson presented by the Bureau of Audiovisual Services. Explanation of the arboreal desert, :35. The Sonora desert in southern Arizona, 1:00. No rivers or streams in the arboreal desert, 1:12. Cacti, plants and the “fish hook” cactus with sharp barbs spotted with coyotes, 1:35. The Papago Indians call the desert home for hundreds of years, 1:48. Crooked mesquite tree was the only tree that the Indians had, needed to make use of everything, 2:04. Adobe mud used to make walls of their homes, 2:30. Giant cacti die, losing thorns and leaving the ribs exposed. Indians used these for the roofs of their homes, 3:20. Windows formed by leaving sections that had no adobe, 3:30. Leaves of the Yucca plant, 4:15. Papago life depended on the placement or availability of water, 4:50. Pottery was made by hammering the clay material around a stone anvil with a paddle, 5:40. Powdered rock kept the clay from sticking to the stone anvil, 6:01. B