Sound Recordings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Conant, Francis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Francis P. Conant Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 110 Sound recordings (and 0.4 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1956-1965, 1971, 1977-1978, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2012-13, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Arrangement: Subseries: Nigeria

Subseries: Kenya 1960s

Subseries: Kenya 1970s

Subseries: Other

Subseries: Separated Boxes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists primarily of recordings from Conant's field research, recorded on 4", 5", and 6" tape reels. Most of the reels are from his research in Nigeria and include recordings of ceremonies, musical instruments, rock gongs, conversations, speeches, prayers, and vocabulary in Hausa and Bankal. His work in Kenya during the 1960s is represented by recordings of Pokot dialects, music, and a summer solstice ceremony. From his research among the Pokot during the 1970s is a reel containing an interview by his daughter Nora and recordings of songs. Subseries: Other includes a radio interview with Conant; recordings of words and phrases in Celtic, Sebei, and Swahili; and recordings of the Wenner-Gren sponsored conference Conant organized in 1977, The Use Of Landsat Data in the Analysis Of Non-Western Ecosystems.

 Information in the below inventory was compiled from several sources, including (when applicable) the leader tape of the reel, the tape box, writing on the reel itself, tape content, and Conant's field notebooks and tape transcripts. In many cases, the writing on the tape boxes have faded to such an extent that they are difficult to read. The cross-references below to Conant's notes should not be considered comprehensive. For the Nigeria recordings, information was also taken from two tape log notebooks, located in Series 1: Nigeria, folders "Tables of Contents: Field Notebooks" and "Tape Transcripts." 

Original boxes have all been retained. Those in poor condition were separated and placed in box 43. 

Please note that the contents of most of the recordings have not been verified.