National Anthropological Archives

MS 2937 Songs of the Quileute Indians

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS2937
Creators:
Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
Dates:
1926
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
1 Folder
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
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.

Administration

Custodial History
Submitted by the author to Bureau of American Ethnology, October 23, 1926.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 2937, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 2937


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Music -- Quileute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Quileute Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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