Indian melodies
By: by Thomas Commuck, a Narragansett Indian ; Harmonized by Thomas Hastings
Contributors: Hastings, Thomas, 1784-1872
Publisher: G. Lane & C.B. Tippett, for the Methodist Episcopal   Church
Published: 1845
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: English Hymns; Music; Tune-books; Indians of North America; Sacred Choruses; Shape note hymnals
Other titles: American tunebooks.; Shape-note tunebooks.; Benson collection of hymnals and hymnology
Notes: "As the tunes in this book are the work of an Indian, it has been thought proper by the author to have it all of a piece. The tunes therefore     will be found to assume the names of noted Indian chiefs, Indian females,       Indian  names of places, &c. This has been done merely as a tribute of respect  to the memory of some tribes ... "--p. vi.