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Indians of North America -- Songs and music

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Four Arawak Indian songs

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9215
Scope and content

Five songs written out in English and Native language as told to Thomas E and Arthur P. Penard by an Arawak indian in Dutch Guiana or Suriname. Three songs are about love and drink; the fourth is about leaving for England. Two of the pages are notes regarding the songs, including information about Indians leaving for England.

Dates: [ca. 1911]

Native American songs, stories and sounds

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112444843]
Identifier: 9251
Scope and content Audio cassettes; Sounds of Indian America Plains & Southwest, Indian House, Taos 1972; A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People, Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology, Anthony Seeger, 1987; "Drum Songs and Painted Dreams", The Canadian Journal of Native Sudies, 1988; Oshkaabewis Native Journal featuring Ojibwe Stories by James Clark, Indian Studies Publications, Bemedji State University, 1998; Recording to accompany the book "Songprints" by Judith Vander, University of Illinois,...
Dates: 1972-1998.

Words to the ganoda chant of the Little Water Society, nig anigoah and Seneca writings

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9013
Scope and content

Notebook and several photostat copies of the text. Contains words to the chant, written November 3, 1849, as well as financial records and other writing in Seneca. The other notes are attributed to individuals other than John Jacket at different times.

Dates: 1849-1871