National Anthropological Archives

MS 3090 Music and customs of the Tule Indians of Panama

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS3090
Creators:
Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
Dates:
1924
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
1 Folder
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Material comprises 56 typed pages manuscript, transcriptions of 2 songs and descriptive analyses of 2 songs. The title page of a manuscript "Songs and Instrumental Music of the Tule Indians of Panama," is filed herein. 56 pages text, 9 pages descriptive analyses, and 11 pages transcriptions, once filed under catalog number 3090, are no longer present. Possibly this manuscript was published in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 77, Number 11, "Study of Tule Music", 1926.)

Administration

Custodial History
Submitted by the author to Bureau of American Ethnology, December 23, 1924.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 3090, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 3090

Local Note

Local Note
The following have been returned to Harrington Collection, ELM, 3/78. Another copy of "Music and Customs of the Tule Indians of Panama," found in J. P. Harrington storeroom, 4/65. "Songs and Instrumental Music of the Tule Indians of Panama." 22 page manuscript, 5 pages in the hand of J. P. Harrington, found in J. P. Harrington storeroom, 4/65.

Bibliography

Bibliography
56 typed page manuscript, transcriptions of 2 songs and descriptive analyses of 2 songs published with minor editorial changes in Smithsonian Exploration and Field-work (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections) Volume 77, Number 2, pages 115-127.


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