Duncan, John W.

John Duncan was a scholar of Central California Indian ethnology who persuaded several other researchers of California Indian music to donate their research materials to the University of New Mexico. Duncan was a student at Sacramento State College when he did his Maidu interviews. Some of the interviews and songs were recorded by student anthropologists from the University of California-Berkeley. This collection includes extensive information about the role of songs within the Maidu culture. These materials document cultural traditions that now have disappeared.