MS 4337-b Musical Customs of the Indians of the Parana Delta and La Plata Littoral and the Gran Chaco of South America

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MS 4337-b Musical Customs of the Indians of the Parana Delta and La Plata Littoral and the Gran Chaco of South America

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Compiled from Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143, Handbook of South American Indians, Volume 1.

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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...