Frances Densmore collection of Pawnee cylinder recordings
Pawnee Indian music, the Frances Densmore collection
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Collection of field recordings of Pawnee songs and spoken word, recorded by Frances Densmore in 1919-1920 among members of the Skidi and Chaui Bands near Pawnee, Oklahoma. The principal singers she recorded were Mr. and Mrs. Wicita Blain, John Luwak, Horse Chief, and Dog Chief. In 1929, she published transcriptions and analyses in "Pawnee Music," Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 93.
Contributor:
Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.) - Densmore, Frances - Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Date:1919
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Frances Densmore Cheyenne cylinder recording
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Field recording of a Cheyenne Bow Society dancing song sung by Bob-tailed Wolf and recorded by Frances Densmore in the summer of 1935 at the U.S. Indian Agency near El Reno, Oklahoma. Apparently one of the cylinders of Cheyenne and Arapaho songs recorded during a field trip sponsored by the Southwest Museum, this is the only one of the series in the Library of...
Contributor:
Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.) - Densmore, Frances - Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Date:1935
Collection
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:
Densmore, Frances - Southwest Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
