Music Recording (Collection)Laura Miller Taylor collection of Chippewa cylinder recordings
Main title
- Laura Miller Taylor collection of Chippewa cylinder recordings [sound recording].
Published/Created
- 1915-1916.
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Description
- 12 sound cylinders (30 minutes) ; 4 in.
Rights advisory
- Duplication of sound recordings may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.
Access advisory
- Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact opens in a new window
Local shelving no.
- RKF 1513-1523
- LWO 8422, r 1
- AFS 22168
- AFC 1954/003
Variant title
- Title from The Federal Cylinder Project: Chippewa Indian music: the Laura Miller Taylor collection
- Chippewa music collected by Laura Miller Taylor and Ralph B. Miller
Performer
- Various singers.
Summary
- Collection of field recordings of Chippewa music among those collected by Laura and Ralph B. Miller (her first husband) of St. Louis, Missouri, probably in the course of their 1915 canoe trip between Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota, with stops at the Wisconsin Chippewa reservations. Additional information and perhaps recordings were obtained during the summer of 1916 at Lac du Flambeau.
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Notes
- "Apparently the Millers did not supervise these recordings....It is possible that all of Miller Taylor's cylinders were recorded by Eniwube..." -- Federal Cylinder Project, p. 137. Eniwube was recorded by Frances Densmore.
- Laura Miller Taylor's papers are in the Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library.
- Sung in Ojibwa, also known as Anishinabe and as Chippewa.
- Federal Cylinder Project (Washington, D.C.: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1984), volume 2, p. 137-141.
Indexes
- Federal Cylinder Project catalog, volume 2, p. 137-141.
Acquisition source
- Transfer; Detroit Public Library; 1954.
Cite as
- Laura Miller Taylor collection of Chippewa cylinder recordings (AFC 1954/003), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
LCCN
- 2010655348
Language code
- oji ciw
Geographic area code
- n-us-wi
Repository
- Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home opens in a new window
Type of material
- Music Recording (Collection)
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- American Folklife Center (Jefferson, LJG31)