Rose Marie Totem Tom Tom

About Indian dance numbers in Rose-Marie please see here: https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/...
at page #6:
"Indian Love Call, a famous Broadway musical from the 1920s, was adapted into the film Rose-Marie (W.S. Van Dyke 1936), a Broadway operetta film featuring extravagant "Totem Tom-Tom" numbers, as well as the famous song, "Indian Love Call." A Variety magazine notes, "through the enhancement of the camera and the soundtrack. The classic "Indian Love Call" as it re-echoes through Canadian woodlands (actual location at Lake Tahoe...) means more than it ever did in the stage original" ("Variety Magazine"). Hollywood's depiction of the Indian's daily life, however, was far from improvised;it was staged to market a nostalgic version of the Indian for non-native audiences. The"eye-filling" Indian dance numbers in Rose-Marie staged by Chester Hale reveals Hollywood's insensitivities towards Indian musical traditions. Unlike Western music at the time, which derived primarily from poetry and literature, traditional American Indian music was an "improvised representation of daily life" (Lavonis 26). Although "white" culture desired to connect with American Indian roots, the rehearsal of music as well as the staging of "Indianness" by staging directors perpetuated the divide between Indianand "white" culture."