Music Recording (Collection)Frances Densmore collection of Chippewa cylinder recordings
Main title
- Frances Densmore collection of Chippewa cylinder recordings [sound recording].
Published/Created
- 1907-1910.
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Description
- 336 sound cylinders ; 4 in.
- 21 sound cylinders ; 6 in.
Rights advisory
- Duplication of sound recordings may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.
Access advisory
- Collection is open for research; access restrictions may apply. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
Local shelving no.
- RKF 3582-3917 (4 in.) ; RLA 02244-02264 (6 in. cylinders)
- LWO 5111 R 312-318; portions of RWA 3281-3283; RWA 3409-3410; RWA 4841; RWE 7424-7430(B3)
- AFS 10515-10556A; 20220-20222; 21261-21262; 22176
- AFC 1943/018
Variant title
- Title from The Federal Cylinder Project: Chippewa Indian music: the Frances Densmore collection
Related names
Performer
- Various singers.
Summary
- 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 ceremonial drum to the Menominee community in 1910. Total duration is 15 hours, 4 minutes. Seventeen cylinders were gifts from Densmore to the Music Division of the Library of Congress in 1943 and 1944, but most of the cylinders were transferred from the National Archives in 1948, with additions from the Smithsonian Institution in 1979 and 1981.
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Notes
- BAE catalog numbers 1-449 [with gaps].
- Sung in Ojibwa, also known as Anishinabe and as Chippewa.
- Selections from these recordings were published as: Songs of the Chippewa from the Archive of American Folk Song [recorded and] edited by Frances Densmore, AAFS 106-110 (Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Division of Music, Recording Laboratory, 1950).
- Descriptions and analyses of the songs are found in two monographs: Densmore, Frances. Chippewa Music, Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 45 and Chippewa Music II, Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 53.
Indexes
- Federal Cylinder Project catalog, (Washington, D.C.: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1984), volume 2, p. 11-133.
Acquisition source
- Accessioned, 1943, 1948, 1979, 1981.
Cite as
- Frances Densmore collection of Chippewa cylinder recordings (AFC 1943/018), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
LCCN
- 2010655347
Language code
- oji ciw
Geographic area code
- n-us-mn n-us-wi n-usc--
Repository
- Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
Type of material
- Music Recording (Collection)
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- American Folklife Center (Jefferson, LJG53)
