Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1996 Festival of American Folklife
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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June 26-July 7, 1996
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1996
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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Newhouse, Seth
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
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November 19, 1880-March 22, 1881
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207 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3489
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National Anthropological Archives
Text of Handsome Lake religion. in Mohawk. Also typed copy of same, by J.N.B. Hewitt. 1936. Typescript document 75 pages.
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DeCorse, Christopher
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1978-1987
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2363 slides (photographs) ((6 v.), color)
2,363 color copy slides
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1993-028
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Christopher DeCorse during his travels in Ghana, Gambia, Senegal, Mali and Cote d'Ivoire.
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Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Martin, John
Allan, William
Smallboy, Harvey, 1879-1947
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1935 summer
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16 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3401
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National Anthropological Archives
Notebook (labelled "1935 VI") containing Albany Ojibwa notes and Weenusk (Winusk) Cree text collected by Truman Michelson during his field research in the region of James Bay and Hudson Bay in 1935. Michelson obtained Albany Ojibwa vocabulary and ethnological notes from John Martin, with William Allan, a Cree speaker, serving as an interpreter. The...
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Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Smallboy, Harvey, 1879-1947
Allan, William
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1935
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2 Notebooks (81 pages)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3398
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National Anthropological Archives
Two notebooks containing stories handwritten in Moose Cree syllabary and English. The syllabic texts were written by Harvey Smallboy at Moose Factory, Ontario. The English translations were dictated by William Allan.
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Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Lutet, Oliver, circa 1905
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1935-1936
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163 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3399
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National Anthropological Archives
Fort George Cree notes and texts collected by Truman Michelson at Fort George on the shore of James Bay and at Great Whale River by Hudson Bay. The notes are mostly linguistic with some ethnological content. The texts are stories in Cree syllabary with English translations. John of Fort George provided most if not all of the Cree text while Oliver ...
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Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Hester, Agnes
Morrison, William
Wapatchee, Andrew
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1935-1936
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64 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3397
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National Anthropological Archives
Rupert House Cree texts and notes collected by Truman Michelson in 1935 and 1936 at James Bay in Canada. Michelson obtained vocabulary and an English translation of a story from Andrew Wapatchee in 1935, most likely while at Rupert House (Waskaganish). He collected additional notes and texts in 1936 from William Morrison and Agnes Hester while at M...
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Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Masty, David
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1935 summer
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2 Notebooks
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3396
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National Anthropological Archives
Handwritten texts and linguistic and ethnological notes from Truman Michelson's 1935 research among the Cree and Inuit at Great Whale River in Quebec, Canada. Among the people that Michelson worked with were David Masty and Thomas, speakers of Great Whale Cree; Rhoderick, a speaker of Rupert House Cree; and Cookie and Harrold, speakers of Great Wha...
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Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
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circa 1931-1934
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400 Items (ca. 400 cards)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3356
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National Anthropological Archives
Truman Michelson's handwritten notes on Cheyenne phonology and vocabulary with English translations.
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Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Haag, Mack
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undated
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650 Items (ca. 650 cards)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3355
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National Anthropological Archives
Note cards with Truman Michelson's handwritten notes from his work with Mack Haag, a Southern Cheyenne, in Oklahoma. The notes consist primarily of Cheyenne vocabulary with English translations and a few ethnological notes.