MS 4482 Various manuscripts relating to the music of Acoma and other Pueblos of New Mexico

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MS 4482 Various manuscripts relating to the music of Acoma and other Pueblos of New Mexico

1929-1939

Includes: "Music of Acoma, Isleta and Cochiti (and Zuni) Pueblos." Typed carbon copy of unpublished manuscript, pages 241-250. This manuscript is a brief resume of F. Densmore's work wih Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti and Zuni songs and dances. No date appears on the manuscript but it could not have been written before 1940. This typed carbon copy was received from the Densmore estate, ca. 1962. Old Manuscript Number 3116 "(10) Acoma Songs of the Flower dance and Corn dance" with one illustration (pencil sketch) of position of Flower dancers, 12 pages. Descriptive analyses of Acoma songs, 8 pages (9 illustrations, 10 pages tabulated analysis, 10 sheets of transcriptions, recorded on old catalog card, are not present). Material presented was obtained in Washington D. C., October, 1928 at the Bureau of American Ethnology and submitted to the Bureau of American Ethnology in manuscript form March 27, 1929. Old Manuscript Number 3147 "A Study of (13) Acoma Songs." 11 page descriptive analysis of 13 Acoma songs. (26 tabulated analysis, 7 sheets transcriptions, recorded on old catalog card are not present.) Submitted to the Bureau of American Ethnology July 23, 1929. Old Manuscript Number 3148 "(9) Acoma songs used in the treatment of the sick, and other Acoma songs." 21 page manuscript, 10 pages descriptive analysis. (18 pages tabulated analysis and 9 sheets transcriptions, recorded on old catalog card, are not present.) Old Manuscript Number 3182 "Corn-grinding and war songs from Isleta Pueblo." 19 page manuscript, including descriptive analyses. (18 pages tabulted analysis and 9 pages transcriptions recorded on old catalog card, are not present). Submitted December, 1930. Old Manuscript Number 3196 "(7) Isleta and (3) Cochiti Songs" including descriptive analysis, 12 pages. (Transcriptions, tabulated analysis and two portraits, recorded on the old catalog card, are not present.) Submitted March 23, 1931. Old Manuscript Number 3200 "Acoma Music." 108 page manuscript. (80 sheets tabulated analysis of 40 songs, transcriptions and 10 illustrations, recorded on old catalog card, are not present.) Submitted 1930. Old Manuscript Number 3229 part (Zuni and Cochiti) Pueblo section of a manuscript entitled " Winnebago, Iroquois, Pueblo, and British Columbia Songs," originally filed under # 3229 but now sections are filed under the Indian tribe. See Winnebago # 3261 (old number 3229 part), Iroquois # 3378 (old number 3229 part), and British Columbia # 3371 (old number 3229 part) for the other sections of this manuscript. The Cochiti section filed here includes a transmittal letter from F. Densmore, Sept. 16, 1939, 4 page transcription, 8 page tabulated analysis, 5 page manuscript including descriptive analysis. Old Manuscript Number 4462 "Music of Acoma, Isleta and Cochiti Pueblos, New Mexico." 151 page manuscript including descriptive analysis. Submitted September 13, 1939 with the note that all previous manuscripts have been combined in this text. This manuscript was probably submitted for Dr. Sterling's review and returned to F. Densmore. The Bureau of American Ethnology received this manuscript with the other papers of the Densmore estate, ca. 1962 with the pencil note that "this manuscript has been superseded by that submitted 8/26/42." Also included are the tabulated analyses of 67 Acoma, Isleta and Cochiti Songs. Transmittal letter, November 4, 1939. Rejected illustration from Densmore's manuscript "Music of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti and Zuni Pueblos," submitted August 26, 1942. Label mounts from prints removed by printer -- probably published in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 165. "Corrected proof" of 75 sheets of Indian music published in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 165- received from Densmore estate, ca. 1962. Several pages of material re corrections and inserts in manuscript of 1942- received from Densmore estate, ca. 1962.

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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...