You may go directly to the collection,
Omaha Indian Music,
in American Memory.
Omaha Indian Music
features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. The multiformat ethnographic
field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings made in the 1890s, 323 songs
and speeches from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow, and 25 songs and
speeches from the 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of Congress.
Segments from interviews with members of the Omaha tribe conducted in 1983 and
1999 provide contextual information for the songs and speeches included in the
collection. Supplementing the collection are black-and-white and color photographs
taken during the 1983 pow-wow and the 1985 concert, as well as research materials
that include fieldnotes and tape logs pertaining to the pow-wow.
These online exhibits
provide context and additional information about this collection.
Omaha
Indian Music Album Booklet
These historical
era(s) are best represented
in the collection, although they may not be all-encompassing.
Development of the Industrial United
States, 1876-1915
Emergence of Modern America, 1890-1930
Contemporary United States, 1968-present
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These collections
and exhibits contain thematically-related primary and secondary sources. Also
browse the Collection
Finder for more related material on the
American Memory Web site.
American
Life Histories, 1936-1940
A Century of Lawmaking
for a New Nation, 1774-1873
Recommended additional
sources of information.
1983
Pow-Wow Fieldnotes
Folklife Center News
Essays, 1981-1985
Map of the Region
Read More About It! - A bibliography
Research Materials
Resources in Ethnographic
Studies from the American
Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Selected Bibliography
from Blessing for a Long Time
Selected Bibliography
from Omaha Indian Music Album Booklet
What is an Ethnographic Field
Collection? from the American
Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Specific guidance
for searching this collection.
To find items in this collection, search
by Keyword or browse by
Music,
Photographs,
Spoken
Word, Events,
or Pow-Wow Audio
in Sequence.
For help with search strategies,
see Finding Items in American Memory.
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of seeing high-quality .tif or .tiff (Tagged Image File Format) photographs. These
are of higher resolution and larger file size than .gif or .jpeg images and require
a special viewer.
You will also need a special player
to listen to the sound recordings in the collection. See American
Memory Viewer Information for details.
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