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Creator:
Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985  Search this
Murie, James R.  Search this
Extent:
624 Pages
Culture:
Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Also Transcriptions of music and musical analysis. With "Notes on Songs and the Composers," by James R. Murie. 9 pages.
Ceremonial Songs of the Pawnee. Memorandum by Miss Roberts. 1 page. List of discrepancies. 2 small sheets. Musical sections, with note to artist or printer. 6 pages. Graphic analyses. 3 sheets. Melodic analysis of 210 songs. 6 sheets. General discussion. 18 pages. Manuscript of song material. 588 pages.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1788
Local Note:
Companion paper to "The Ceremonies of the Pawnee," by James R. Murie. (Bureau of American Ethnology Number 2520.)
See Bureau of American Ethnology File # 4243, page 164 for mention of 95 records of songs of Pawnee ceremonies. Records presumably in Library of Congress ?
Topic:
Music -- Pawnee  Search this
Rituals, formulas and ceremonies -- Pawnee  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1788, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1788
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw326c46595-cd18-444e-be21-1a599c9bd379
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1788