Frances Densmore collection of Iroquois cylinder recordings
Iroquios music: the Frances Densmore collection
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Two dictaphone cylinders recorded by Frances Densmore in 1932 in Washington, D.C. John Napolean Brinton Hewitt, himself a Bureau of American Ethnology linguist of Tuscarora descent, sang four songs of the Condoling and Installation Council of the League of the Iroquois. The cylinders were transferred from the National Archives in 1948.
Contributor:
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton) - Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1932
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Winnebago songs collected by Frances Densmore
Former title: Frances Densmore disc copy of Winnebago cylinder recordings
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Experimental Speak-O-Phone disc duplicate of unidentified songs. Frances Densmore originally recorded the songs on Dictaphone cylinder(s) and later copied them to this Speak-O-Phone disc to test the audio transfer quality. The songs were recorded in Wisconsin and depict a performer named Thundercloud singing the dance known as 49, related to soldiers who served in World War I.
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Densmore, Frances
Date:1929
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Frances Densmore collection of Santo Domingo Pueblo cylinder recordings
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Collection of field recordings of Santo Domingo Pueblo songs recorded by Frances Densmore in Los Angeles, California, in August 1936. According to a note on the first cylinder in the series, these are "original records from which transcriptions were made. They are presented to the Bureau with permission of Dr. F.W. Hodge, Dir. of the Museum, and of the donor of the grant under…
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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Songs of the Chippewa from the Archive of American Folk Song
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Field recordings. Sung in Ojibwa. Title from container. Various performers. Recorded 1907-1910 on cylinders at the principal reservations in Minnesota and the Lac du Flambeau Reservation in Wisconsin. Program notes inserted in container include the texts with English translations.
Contributor:
Densmore, Frances - Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory - Archive of American Folk Song
Date:1950
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Songs of the Yuma, Cocopa, and Yaqui. [Sound recording]
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Folk music of the United States. "From the Archive of American Folk Song." Recorded originally on cylinders, 1922, by Frances Densmore. Introductory notes by Duncan Emrich on slipcase; text and comments on the music (16 p.) inserted.
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Densmore, Frances - Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory - Archive of American Folk Song
Date:1951
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Frances Densmore collection of Quileute cylinder recordings
Quileute Indian music : the Frances Densmore collection
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Collection of field recordings of Quileute songs sung by Mrs. Gilbert Holden, some with drum accompaniment recorded at the Makah Reservation, Neah Bay, Washington, in August 1926 by Frances Densmore.
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Holden, Gilbert - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1926
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Frances Densmore collection of Menominee cylinder recordings
Menominee Indian music: the Frances Densmore collection
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Collection of field recordings collected by Frances Densmore on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin during 1925 and 1928.
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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1925
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Songs of the Papago. [Sound recording]
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Folk music of the United States. Copied from cylinders, recorded 1920 by the editor, in the Smithsonian-Densmore Collection of the Archive of American Folk Song. Analytical notes by the editor, including English translations of the texts and an introd. by Duncan Emrich (16 p.) inserted in slipcase.
Contributor:
Densmore, Frances - Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory - Archive of American Folk Song
Date:1952
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Frances Densmore collection of Mohave cylinder recordings
Mohave music: the Frances Densmore collection
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Collection of field recordings of Mohave songs recorded by Frances Densmore on the Yuma reservation in California during February 1922. The cylinders were transferred from the National Archives in 1948.
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1922
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Frances Densmore collection of Cochiti Pueblo cylinder recordings
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Collection of field recordings of songs from Cochiti Pueblo, sung by Evergreen Tree and recorded by Frances Densmore in 1930 at Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin where members of several Pueblos were performing at the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial. The cylinders were transferred to the Library of Congress from the National Archives in 1948.
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1930
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Harry Jumper Seminole songs
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Seminole songs and a story sung and narrated by Harry Jumper in the Seminole language, with commentary in English about the songs by Harry's son, Josiah Jumper. The location where the songs were recorded is not known. The recording was compiled by Frances Densmore under the auspices of the University of Florida. See finding aid: http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/sound/ufaudio11.htm
Contributor:
Jumper, Harry - Jumper, Josiah - Densmore, Frances
Date:1954
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Frances Densmore collection of Seminole and Calusa cylinder recordings
Seminole Indian Music (including Calusa Indian Music): the Frances Densmore Collection
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Collection of field recordings of Seminole music (including five cylinders of Calusa songs that were part of the repertoire of Billie Stewart, a song leader for the Cow Creek Seminoles), recorded by Frances Densmore at Musa Isle Trading Post (Cypress Swamp), Brighton, and Dania [Hollywood], Florida, between 1931 and 1933, under the sponsorship of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the National Research Council.…
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Bowlegs, Billy - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1931
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Frances Densmore collection of Quechan (Yuma) cylinder recordings
Title from The Federal Cylinder Project: Quechan (Yuma) music and spoken word: the Frances Densmore collection
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Collection of field recordings of Quechan songs and spoken word recorded by Frances Densmore on the Yuma reservation in California in February and March 1922. The cylinders were transferred from the National Archives in 1948.
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1922
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Frances Densmore collection of Zuni cylinder recordings
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Collection of field recordings of songs of Zuni Pueblo sung by Falling Star (Mo'yatcun'ne) in 1940. The cylinders were recorded by Frances Densmore in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, where members of several Pueblos were performing at the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial. Densmore writes: "Falling Star (Mo'yatcun'ne) was born at Zuni where his father was a singer and dancer....He had never taken part in a public…
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1940
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Frances Densmore collection of Mandan and Hidatsa cylinder recordings,
Mandan and Hidatsa Indian music
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Collection of field recordings of Mandan and Hidatsa songs recorded in 1915 by Frances Densmore on the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1915
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Frances Densmore collection of Isleta Pueblo cylinder recordings
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Collection of field recordings of songs of Isleta Pueblo sung by Anthony Lucero (Pawi'tla). The cylinders were recorded in 1930 by Frances Densmore in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, where members of several Pueblos were performing at the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial. The cylinders were transferred to the Library of Congress from the National Archives in 1948.
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1930
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Matthew Stirling and Frances Densmore collection of Acoma Pueblo cylinder recordings
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Collection of field recordings of songs from Acoma Pueblo. M. W. Stirling, director of the Bureau of American Ethnology, had his assistant, Anthony Wilding, make recordings during the course of Stirling's ethnological studies with a group of Acoma Indians in Washington D.C. All the songs were sung by Philip Sanchez and interpreted by Wilbert Hunt. Stirling then made these recordings available for study by…
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.) - Stirling, Matthew Williams
Date:1928
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Southwest Museum duplication project
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Collection of field recordings of Cheyenne and Arapaho music in Oklahoma in 1935; songs of the Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico; and of Maidu (Konkow) songs from California recorded by Frances Densmore for the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California, in 1937.
Contributor:
Southwest Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.) - Densmore, Frances
Date:1970
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Frances Densmore collection of Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) cylinder recordings
Title from The Federal Cylinder Project: Winnebago Indian music: the Frances Densmore collection
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Collection of field recordings of dictaphone cylinders and four-inch cylinders of Winnebago songs, recorded on Frances Densmore's field trips to Wisconsin and at her home in Red Wing, Minnesota, between October 1927 and June 1932. Her unpublished manuscript of transcriptons and analysis of these recordings is in the National Anthropological Archives. Includes ceremonial songs, dance songs, game songs, dream songs, love songs, war songs,…
Contributor:
Thunder, Henry - Densmore, Frances - Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.) - Winslow White Eagle
Date:1927
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Frances Densmore collection of Teton and Santee Sioux cylinder recordings
Teton-Sioux Indian music
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Collection of field recordings of Teton and Santee songs and spoken word collected by Frances Densmore in 1911 and 1914 at Fort Yates, North Dakota, and other portions of the Standing Rock as well as the Sisseton Reservations in South Dakota.
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1911
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Frances Densmore collection of Makah cylinder recordings
Makah Indian music: the Frances Densmore collection
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Collection of field recordings of Makah songs, three of which are also listed in the Clayoquot collection since they each contain one Clayoquot and one Makah song. These recordings were made by Frances Densmore in Neah Bay, Washington, in July 1923 and in July-August 1926. These Bureau of American Ethnology cylinders were transferred to the Library of Congress principally from the National Archives in…
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1923
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Frances Densmore collection of Chippewa cylinder recordings
Chippewa Indian music: the Frances Densmore collection
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Collection of field recordings of Chippewa songs and speech recorded by Frances Densmore on one visit to Washington, D.C. and during ten field trips to Red Lake, White Earth, Nett Lake, and Leech Lake in Minnesota, and to Lac du Flambeau in Wisconsin, between July 1907 and November 1910. Included in the collection are the Sioux songs used by Chippewa singers in presenting a…
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1907
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Frances Densmore collection of Clayoquot cylinder recordings
Clayoquot Indian music: the Frances Densmore collection
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Collection of field recordings of Clayoquot (Tla-o-qui-aht), songs recorded by Frances Densmore at Neah Bay on the Makah Reservation in July 1923 and August 1926. Three additional cylinders, each containing one Clayoquot and one Makah song, are listed in both the Clayoquot and Makah collection descriptions in the Federal Cylinder Project. The cylinders were transferred to the Library of Congress from the National Archives…
Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
Date:1923
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Frances Densmore collection of Choctaw cylinder recordings
Choctaw Indian music, the Frances Densmore collection
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Collection of field recordings of Choctaw music recorded by Frances Densmore in Pearl River, Bogue Chitto, and Philadelphia, Mississippi, in January 1933, under a grant from the National Research Council. The cylinders were transferred from the National Archives in 1948.
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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Densmore, Frances - Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.)
CollectionFrances Densmore collection of Iroquois cylinder recordings