MS 3258 Choctaw music
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 3258-a-b-c-d
label: Other Title
content: Choctaw Music
label: Other Title
content: Choctaw Songs of Dances and Games
label: Other Title
content: Choctaw War and Dance Songs
label: Other Title
content: Choctaw and Seminole Songs
label: Other Title
content: Tabulated analysis of Choctaw songs, with final numbering but not with final titles
name: label: Collector
content: Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Collector
content: Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1940
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Submitted by the author to the Bureau of American Ethnology at intervals. This manuscript was prepared from various Choctaw manuscripts submitted by the author to the Bureau of American Ethnology at intervals and published in final form in B.A.E. Bulletin 136.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3258
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Musical transcriptions
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Musical transcriptions
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Material includes Manuscript "Choctaw Music," 144 typed pages, 14 photographic illustrations, and transcriptions of 65 songs and one flute melody.
label: Scope and Contents
content: (Old Number Manuscripts used in writing 3258 and filed with it: 3258-a "Choctaw Songs of Dances and Games." 33 page Manuscript including descriptive analyses of 25 songs. (50 pages tabulated analyses, 19 pages transcriptions, and 6 photographs, recorded on old catatog card, are not present.) Submitted March 25, 1933. 3258-b "Choctaw War and Dance Songs." 15 page Manuscript (12 transcriptions of songs with original phonograph records, recorded on old catalog card, are not present.) Submitted March 18, 1933. 3259-b (part) Choctaw text from Manuscript "Choctaw and Seminole Songs." June 14, 1939. Typescript document 16 pages. The Seminole material is separately filed under Seminole Manuscript Number 4690.
label: Scope and Contents
content: (Old Number) 3259-d "Tabulated analysis of Choctaw songs, with final numbering but not with final titles. Contains many memoranda analyses that have not been submitted with manuscripts but were made for use in the final summary of Choctaw analyses." Returned by Frances Densmore. --- Original field notes of F. Densmore on Choctaw music. Approximately 50 pages.