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A Guide to Field Cylinder Collections in Federal Agencies. Volume 3, Great Basin/Plateau Indian Catalog, Northwest Coast/Arctic Indian Catalog DOCUMENT RESUME RC 017 189 AUTHOR Gray, Judith A., Ed. TITLE The Federal Cylinder Project: A Guide to Field Cylinder Collections in Federal Agencies. Volume 3, Great Basin/Plateau Indian Catalog, Northwest Coast/Arctic Indian Catalog. INSTITUTION Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. American Folklife Center. PUB DATE 88 NOTE 300p.; For volumes 1, 2, and 8, see ED 275 468-470. AVAILABLE FROMSuperintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. PUB TYPE Reference Materials - Bibliographies (131) -- Historical Materials (060) -- Books (010) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC12 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Alaska Natives; *American Indian Culture; American Indian History; *American Indian Languages; American Indians; *Audiotape Recordings; Canada Natives; Ethnography; Library Collections; *Music; Nonprint Media; Primary Sources; *Songs; Tribes IDENTIFIERS Alaska; British Columbia; Densmore (Frances); *Ethnomusicology; Greenland; Library of Congress; United States (Northwest); Wax Cylinder Recordings Two catalogs inventory wax cylinder collections, field recorded among Native American groups, 1890-1942. The catalog for Great Basin and Plateau Indian tribes contains entries for 174 cylinders in 7 collections from the Flathead, Nez Perce, Thompson/Okanagon, Northern Ute, and Yakima tribes. The catalog for Northwest Coast and Arctic Indian tribes contains entries for 498 cylinders in 20 collections from the Carrier, Clackamas Chinook, Clayoquot, Mainland Comox, Polar Eskimos, Halkomelem, Ingalik, Kalapuya, Kwakiutl, Makah, Nitinat, Nootka, Quileute, Shasta, Squamish, Tlingit, Tsirashian, Tututni, and Upper Umpqua. Collectors include Frances Densmore, Leo Joachim Frachtenberg, and 10 others. Catalog introductions provide information about the collectors and their aims, the circumstances of recording expeditions, and aspects of classification. Collection introductions summarize basic information about scope, organization, recording locations and dates, institutional affiliations, and collectors. Individual entries include cylinder number, Archive of Folk Culture number, number assigned by collector, duration and quality of recording, collector's description of contents, performer, locatio' and date of recording, and technical notes. Selected bibliographies contain published and unpublished materials: 34 references for the first catalog; 70 references for the second catalog. Maps show sites of field recordings. (SV) **********************'*************1********************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** THE FEDERAL CYLINDER PRO fECT A Guide to Field Cylinder Collections in Federal A gencies VOLUME 3 GREAT BASIN/PLATEAU INDIAN CATALOG NORTHWEST COAST/ARCTIC INDIAN CATALOG Edited by Judith A. Gray with the assistance of Karen R. Moses American Folkhle Center Library of Congress Washington 1988 3 Studies in American Folk life, No.3, Vol. 3 Dorothy Sara Lee, Series Editor Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data (Revised for vol. 3) Main entry under title: The Federal cylinder project. (Studies in American folklife; no. 3) Includes bibliographies and indexes. Supt. of Docs. no.: LC 39.8:C99Iv.1 Contents: v. 1. Introduction and inventory I Erika Brady... [et al.] v.2.Northeastern Indian catalog, Southeastern Indian catalog I edited by Judith A. Gray, Dorothy Sara Lee. v. 3.Great Basin, Plateau Indian catalog, Northwest Coast, Arctic Indian catalog I edited by Judith A. Gray. 1.Folk MusicDiscographyCatalogs.2.Phono- cylindersCatalogs.3.Sound recordings in ethnomusi- cology.I. American Folklife Center. II. Series. ML156.4.F5F4 1984 016.7899'121773 82-600289 [Z663.116.F4 1984] Forsale by the Superintendent ofDocuments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.20402 1 THE AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER The Amerr,an Folk life Centel was established American Folklife Center in1978. Since its by the Congress of the United States in 1976 ,v ith founding in 1928, the at chiv t. has assembled at the the passage of Public Lau 9.1-201, dm Amu lean Ulna') of Congress one of the most signifie Int Folklife Preservation Act. The center is charged collections of folklife materials in the world. It wah 'preserving and pi esenting American folk- cunt' ols audio 'curt dings containing folk-,ong, hrough programs of research, documenta- folk music, folk tales, oral history, and other forms tion, archival preservation, live presentation, of u aditional expression, holds ov elseventy exhibition, publication, dissemination, training, thousand pages of manusuipt material, and and other auk rues in olv Mg folk traditions the maintains a leach ng loom w i th books and periodi- United States. cals dealing with folk music and folklore chosen The center's program has been arranged to from the thousands of relevant items in the fulfill four major goals: the coordination of folk Library's collections. cultural ac.tivities, assistance to folklife agencies As part of its reference service, the archive and specialists in various parts of the country, pi (pares and publishes numerous guides, finding research and arch iv al ser v ice, and model plug' ams aids, bibliographies, and discographies w hich are and publications. available to the public at no charge. It has also published LP recordings of folk music and folk- The z.:;.hive of Folk Culture lore, available for purchase at the Library or by The Archive of Folk Culture became part of the mail. iii CONTENTS Pap Preface vii Map:Sites of Great Basin 'Plateau and Northwest Coast/Arctic Field Recordings xi Great Basin 'Plateau Indian catalog 1 Introduction 3 Flathead Indian MusicClaude Everett Schaeffer Collection 5 Nez Perce Indian MusicAlice Cunningham Fletcher Collection ...I 1 Nez Perce Indian Music and Spoken WordHerbert Joseph Spinden Collection 15 Thompson Indian MusicFrances Densthore Collection 27 Thompson/Okanagon Indian Music [Erich Moritz von Hornbostel Demonstration Collection] Franz Boas Collection 35 Ute (Northern) Indian Music and Spoken WordFrances Densmore Collection 37 Yakima Indian MusicFrances Densmore Collection 74 Selected Bibliography 76 Northwest Coast/Arctic Indian Catalog 79 Introduction 81 Carrier Indian MusicFrances Densmore Collection 83 Clackamas Chinook Indian MusicMelville Jacobs Collection 85 Clayoquot Indian MusicFrar ,cs Densmore Collection 101 Comox (Mainland) Indian MusicFrances Densmore Collection 120 Eskimo (Polar) Music [Erich Moritz von Hornbostel Demonstration Collection]Christian Leden Collection 127 1- lalkomelem Indian MusicFrances Densmore Collection 129 Ingalik Indian MusicJohn Wight Chapman Collection 137 Kalapuya Indian MusicLeo Joachim Frachtenberg Collection 141 Kwakiutl Indian MusicBenjamin Ives Gilman Collection 145 Makah Indian MusicFrances Densmore Collection 152 Nitinat Indian MusicFrances Densmore Collection 207 Nootka Indian Music and Spoken WordMorris Swadesh Collection 217 Quileute Indian MusicFrances Densmore Collection 219 Quileute Indian MusicLeo Joachim Frachtenberg Collection 223 Shasta Indian MusicLeo Joachim Frachtenberg Collection 253 Squamish Indian MusicFrances Densmore Collection 255 Tlingit Indian MusicJohn Swanton Collection 259 Tsimshian Indian Music and Spoken WordFrances Densmore Collection 275 Tututni Indian MusicLeo Joachim Frachtenberg Collection 279 Upper Umpqua Indian MusicLeo Joachim Frachtenberg Collection 285 Selected Bibliography 287 1 PREFACE In 1979 the American Folk life Center at the How To Use This Catalog Librar)of Congress inaugurated the Federal The Basin, Plateau and Northwest Coast, Aline Cylinder Project to duplicate onto preservation catalogs shale the general foi mat ahead) es- tape, document, and catalog field-recorded wax tablished in earlire volunresof the Federal C) lindcr cylinders in the Librar)'s Archie e of Folk Culture Project catalog series. Although ph) sicall) bound and in other federal agencies. Of the approx- into one volume, the catalogs are distinct units, imately ten thousand cylinders 01 tape copies of each having a separate introduction and bibli- cylinders now in the archive's collection, almost ography. Each catalog is divided into collections see en thousand document the music. and language all anged alphabeticall) b) culture group names, of nearly one hunched and fort) Native American modtheations of the basic catalog format are groups. Man) of these q linders were recorded introduced w ho ever necessai ) to meet the require- under the auspices of the Bureau of American ments of individual collections. Ethnolog) by pioneers in the developing dis- Introductions preceding each collection sum- ciplines of anthropology, linguistics, folklore, marize basic information concerning collectors, and ethnomusicology, and contain materials of performers, recording lo,.ations and dates, insti- enormous cultural and historical value both for tutional affiliation or sponsor of the collector, scholars and for the peoples among w hom the provenance of the cy linders, and numbering cylinders were recorded. systems applied to the cylinder recordings by the Because of the abundance of Native American collector 01 sponsor ing institution and the Library recorded material in the Librar)'s collections, the of Congress. Also included is information about cy linders containing American Indian music and published and unpublished documentation spoken word have been grouped into catalogs that ttranscr iptions, field notes, and the like), particular correspond gene'
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