MS 3508 Eulogy of the Founders of the League

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MS 3508 Eulogy of the Founders of the League

1932

Recorded by Nellie Barnes, and transcribed by William Howie. Text written by F. Densmore, and 1 sheet transcription. Evidently recorded by Mr Hewitt, 1932. Iroquoian section, 4 songs (dictaphone records, transcriptions and tabulated analyses) and 4 pages of 4 Iroquois songs recorded by J. N. B. Hewitt.

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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...