MS 2937 Songs of the Quileute Indians

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MS 2937 Songs of the Quileute Indians

1926

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Includes 7 page manuscript and descriptive analysis of 11 songs. (4 pages transcriptions, 22 tabulated analysis, one portrait of singer, Mrs. Holden, 1 sheet with sketch of designs of face paint, recorded on old catalog card, not present.) Old catalog card was marked "pub. BAE 124." This appears to be the only manuscript now in the BAE Archives relating to this publication. See number 3157 for various other Quileute manuscripts submitted by F. Densmore, published and never returned to Bureau of American Ethnology.

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Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957

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Frances Theresa Densmore was born on May 21, 1867 in Red Wing, Minnesota. She studied at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music from 1884 to 1887. Her professional interest in the music of Native Americans dates from the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1905, she made her first visit to the Minnesota tribes and in 1907 began to record Indian music under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. During her fifty years with the Bureau, she recorded near...