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ArticleOmaha Indian Music Album Booklet Top of page Skip to main content Library of Congress Search Everything Audio Recordings Books/Printed Material Films, Videos Legislation Manuscripts/Mixed Material Maps Notated Music Newspapers Periodicals Personal Narratives Photos, Prints, Drawings Software,...
- Date: 1985
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ArticleAlbum Technical Note The four-inch wax cylinders heard on this album were rerecorded onto magnetic tape using a modified Edison Home Phonograph. The machine accepted styluses varying in size to accommodate the different size and...
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ArticleOmaha Indian Music Album Booklet Omaha Indian Informant and Alice Fletcher in Macy, NE. Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Photograph No. 4500. In the late 19th century, American Indian music was emerging as a...
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ArticleOmaha Song Today Clockwise from top: Looking Toward Macy from Pow-Wow; Baseball Game in Macy; View of Bluffs, Missouri River, and Iowa. There are no more deer hoof rattles. The moccasin game exists only in...
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ArticleReflections on the Omaha Cylinder Recordings Omaha reservation, Thurston County, Nebraska. By the time Alice Fletcher first began her study of Omaha culture in the early 1880s, much of the original land belonging to the Dhegiha Siouan-speaking Omaha...