Full DescriptionOmaha Indian Music |
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| Title: | Omaha Indian Music |
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At head of title: American Memory From the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress |
| URL: |
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/omhhtml/omhhome.html 
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| Description: | Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. The multiformat ethnographic field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and Alice Cunningham Fletcher between 1895 and 1897, 323 songs and speeches from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow, and 25 songs and speeches from the 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of Congress. Segments from interviews with members of the Omaha tribe conducted in 1983 and 1999 provide contextual information for the songs and speeches included in the collection. Supplementing the collection are black-and-white and color photographs taken during the 1983 pow-wow and the 1985 concert, as well as research materials that include fieldnotes and tape logs pertaining to the pow-wow. |
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| Subjects: |
Omaha Indians--Music. Folk music. Folk songs, Indian. |
| DLF-specific Subjects: | American Culture |
| Geographic Coverage: | North America (continent) |
| Time Period: |
Late 20th Century (1968-2000) Middle 20th Century (1934-1967) Early 20th Century (1901-1933) Late 19th Century (1868-1900) Modern (1701-present) |
| Objects Represented: |
Photographs / slides / negatives Music (audio files) Oral histories (audio files) Fieldnotes |
| Format: |
image/jpeg text/html audio |
| Interaction with Collection: |
Search Browse |
| Frequency of additions: | Irregularly |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress [Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, 2000. |
| This Record Last Updated By: | khage@umich.edu |
| This Record Last Updated On: | 10/20/2008 1:13:53 PM |
| Hosting Institution: | Library of Congress |
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| Notes: | A sampling of the Omaha Indian collections held at the American Folklife Center', the Library of Congress |
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