Frances Densmore photographs of July 4 observances at Standing Rock Reservation
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 81L
name: label: Creator
content: Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sioux
place: label: Place
content: Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
creator: label: Creator
content: Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Sioux
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Frances Densmore (1867-1957) was born in Red Wing, Minnesota, and educated at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (1884-1886). She taught music in St. Paul until 1889, when she moved to Boston to study with composers at Harvard University. Soon thereafter, Densmore became interested in Native American music and she did her first field studies with the Ojibwa in Minnesota in 1905. She became associated with the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1907, which helped fund her trips to record music, collect musical insturments, and make photographs documenting tribes across the United States. Densmore stayed with the Bureau for fifty years until her death in Red Wing in 1957.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Prints (silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 7 Negatives (photographic) (nitrate)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1912
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Photographs possibly donated by Frances Densmore as part of publication of BAE Bulletin 61.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.81L
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photograph published in Frances Densmore, Teton Sioux Music, BAE Bulletin 61, 1918.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting camps and scenery during July 4th observances in 1912 at Bullhead, Standing Rock Reservation, South Dakota. Handwriting on the photographs' versos is probably that of Frances Densmore.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds Frances Densmore papers (MS 4250) and material relating to her music research (MS 3370 and other numbered manuscript collections).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Densmore photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 24, MS 4250, MS 4635, MS 3261, MS 4690, MS 4877, Photo Lot 33, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Densmore held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4846, MS 4821, Bureau of American Ethnology records, Science Service records, records of the Department of Anthropology, and collections of personal papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Braun Research Library at Autry National Center and the Minnesota Historical Society also holds Frances Densmore papers.