Wax cylinder recordings of American Indian songs and dances, ca. 1910
Wax cylinder recordings of American Indian songs and dances, ca. 1910
Wax cylinder recordings of American Indian songs and dances, ca. 1910
Wax cylinder recordings of American Indian songs and dances, ca. 1910
Wax cylinder recordings of American Indian songs and dances, ca. 1910
Wax cylinder recordings of American Indian songs and dances, ca. 1910
Wax cylinder recordings of American Indian songs and dances, ca. 1910
Wax cylinder recordings of American Indian songs and dances, ca. 1910
Wax cylinder recordings of American Indian songs and dances, ca. 1910
Wax cylinder recordings of American Indian songs and dances, ca. 1910
Wax cylinder recordings of American Indian songs and dances, ca. 1910
NAA MS 2008-14
This collection is comprised of thirteen (13) original recordings of American Indian songs and dances, recorded on two-minute Edison Blanks wax cylinders. Eight of the cylinders are in pristine condition. Two are cracked and cannot be played. Contents are marked on individual cylinders in pencil or black ink: 1) The last Owl Dance; 2) Two flute songs; 3) Sioux flute 2 loves; 4) Sioux love song; 5) Kiowa love songs; 6) Sirecha Dance; 7) Flute love lullaby; 8) Flute on the bridge; 9) War dance; 10) Buffalo dance; 11) Song before fight; 12) Indian flute. a love song, played by Turkey Leggs. (Cheyene); 13) Owl Dance song.
MS 2008-14, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Donated by Steve Elliot. From the estate of Robert N. Wilkinson, a Boulder, Colorado radio station owner and collector of old radios and phonographs. There is no provenance documentation. Wilkinson told the donor that he bought an Edison cylinder player in Arizona and the store owner included the cylinders in the purchase.