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Wyoming
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 collections of the American Folklife Center include extensive recordings
of American Indian traditions from across the United States. Among its
recordings are Northern Arapaho and Shoshone music collected in Wyoming
by noted ethnomusicologist Willard Rhodes for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
in 1951.
- Wyoming Collections in the Archive
of Folk Culture [full text]
Wyoming 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.
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