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Alaska
The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress through Public Law 94-201 and charged to "preserve and present American folklife." The Center incorporates the Archive
of Folk Culture, which was established at the Library of Congress in 1928, and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world.
Collections
The American Folklife Center has among its holdings nineteen ethnographic
collections featuring the traditional music and folklore of Alaska. The
earliest material included in these collections, Tlingit Indian music recorded
on cylinders, dates from 1903. Other Alaska groups represented in the collections
are the Aleut, Atna Athabaskan, Haida, Inuit, and Ingalik. The Archive
also holds recordings of stories, songs, recitations, and oral histories
of more recent settlers, recorded in the 1940s and later.
- Alaska Collections in the Archive
of Folk Culture [full text]
Alaska participated in the Library's Bicentennial Local Legacies project,
which includes documentation of local traditions and celebrations for the
American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture.
Publications
- The Federal Cylinder Project: A Guide to Field Recordings in Federal
Agencies, Volume 3: Great Basin/Plateau Northwest Coast/Arctic Indian
Catalog [catalog record]
- A Brief List of Materials Relating to Alaskan Music (bibliography from 1965) [full text]
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