Performing Archive

An Archive of Song

In addition to the thousands of photogravure images captured by Curtis, he made over 10,000 wax cylinder recordings of Indian language, ritual, and music. The wax cylinders are held by a number of different collectors and archives and are a particularly fragile recording media.

The recordings included here were obtained from the University of Indiana, Bloomington's Archives of Traditional Music. The collection was founded in 1936 at Columbia University and moved to the University of Indiana in 1948. The Catalog of Phonorecording of Music and Oral Data Held by the Archives of Traditional Music (GK Hall, 1977) has a complete listing of the holdings up to publication date.

Where possible, we have included transcripts of the recordings. Please note that the audio files require Flash player and have not been optimized to reduce either background or media noise. Wax cylinders are a notoriously fragile medium and the files we have here reflect their age and condition.

This page has paths:

  1. Browsing the Media Erik Loyer

Contents of this path:

  1. Bear Medicine Song, Atsina Gros Ventres
  2. Bear Song, Winter Dance
  3. Bull's Head Medicine Song
  4. Devil Fish Mask - Kwakiutl
  5. Dog Society Song
  6. First Song of Thunderbird Ceremony
  7. Fox Song - Atsina Gros Ventres
  8. Grass Dance - Atsina Gros Ventres
  9. Hamatsa Song
  10. Love Song - Kwakiutl
  11. Lullaby - Atsina Gros Ventres
  12. Morning Song - Kwakiutl
  13. Mosquito Song - Atsina Gros Ventres
  14. Nursery Song - Kwakiutl
  15. Second Song of Thunderbird Ceremony
  16. Seven Girl Dance Sung in Plaza
  17. Seven Girl Dance When Woman Whips
  18. Snake Dance - Nambe Pueblo
  19. Song of Nuhbimahla in Winter Ceremony
  20. Squaw Dance - Atsina Gros Ventres
  21. Star Society Song - Atsina Gros Ventres
  22. Wild Man of the Woods - Paqusilahl Song

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