The Chief's Blanket

The Chief's Blanket

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 10, 1912

Genres

Western

Original Title

The Chief's Blanket

Production Companies

American Mutoscope & Biograph

Director

D.W. Griffith

Description

When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred blanket is covered over it and a sentinel left to watch that this, his last resting place, is not desecrated. The tribe has just departed for their village when a mountain outlaw appears and succeeds in stealing the blanket, having given the sentinel doctored whiskey. When the Indians discover this they exile the unfaithful sentinel until he can recover the blanket.