Gilman, Benjamin Ives, 1852-1933 collector Hemenway, Mary, 1820-1894 sponsor Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.) World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) sound recording-musical performed music Songs. Dance music. Field recordings. Cylinder recordings. ilu 1893 1893 monographic 1893 1893---- 1893---- mul wak sun tur kwk sun tur

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102 sound cylinders ; 4 in. Collection of recordings of performances at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois in 1893. Includes 40 cylinders of Fijian, Samoan, and Uvean (Wallis Island) music; 34 cylinders of Javanese and Sundanese music, songs, dances, and gamelan tunings, as well as several Euroamerican melodies; 9 cylinders of Turkish and Syrian/Lebanese vocal and instrumental music; and 18 cylinders of Kwakiutl songs recorded by Benjamin Ives Gilman under the sponsorship of Mary Hemenway. Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at Duplication of sound recordings may be governed by copyright and other restrictions. Library of Congress duplication project, circa 1982, Federal Cylinder Project. Originals on 102 sound cylinders, retained by the Library. Various performers. Recorded at the Samoan Exhibit, Java Village, Turkish Theatre, and at an unidentified location (probably the Indian Village) at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois by Benjamin Ives Gilman, September 1893; some cylinders are undated. Benjamin Ives Gilman 1893 World's Columbian Exposition collection (AFC 1972/043), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology; Donor, Transfer; 1970. In multiple languages including Kwakiutl, Turkish, Sundanese, and others. The cylinders were originally in the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University and were transferred to the Library of Congress in 1970. Federal Cylinder Project (Washington, D.C.: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1984), volume 8, p. 1-34. Partial transcriptions for most of the Kwakiutl songs are in Franz Boas, The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897). Federal Cylinder Project catalog, volume 8, p. 1-34. n-us-il a-io--- n-cn-bc World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Music Folk music Gamelan music Choruses Songs National songs Wayang music Indonesia Java Songs, Sundanese Indonesia Songs, Turkish Turkey Indians of North America Music Kwakiutl Indians Music Music British Columbia Vancouver Island 19th century Music Fiji 19th century Music Indonesia Java 19th century Music Lebanon 19th century Music Samoan Islands 19th century Music Syria 19th century Music Turkey 19th century Music Wallis and Futuna Wallis Islands 19th century Library of Congress American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home 2013655333 dacs DLC 130620 20250607054137.2 17786262 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng