MS 4097 Rain Dancing and Corn-grinding Songs of the Zuni

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MS 4097 Rain Dancing and Corn-grinding Songs of the Zuni

1940-1941

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Material comprises 16 page manuscript with descriptive analyses. (4 sketches, transparencies and tabulated analyses of 15 Zuni songs, recorded on old catalog card, are not present. Transcriptions and tabulated analyses were sent to the Editor's office for use in Bulletin 164, 8/19/55, and not returned.)

16 Pages

National Anthropological Archives

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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...