Vida Chenoweth collection, circa 1940-2000

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Collection Summary

Title	Vida Chenoweth collection, circa 1940-2000
Inclusive Dates	1940-2000
Call No.	AFC 1994/003
Creator	Vida Chenoweth, 1929-
Extent	15,686 items
Extent	42 containers
Extent (Manuscripts)	15.5 linear feet (31 containers).
Extent (Sound Recordings)	638 sound cassettes : analog.
Extent (Sound Recordings)	251 sound tape reels : analog ; various sizes.
Extent (Sound Recordings)	89 sound discs : analog ; various sizes.
Extent (Sound Recordings)	2 sound discs (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Extent (Moving Images)	71 videocassettes (VHS and U-Matic) : color, sound ; 1/2 in and 3/4 in.
Extent (Moving Images)	5 videodiscs (DVD).
Extent (Moving Images)	10 film reels.
Extent (Graphic Materials)	approximately 660 photographs : film negatives.
Extent (Graphic Materials)	approximately 1200 photographic prints : black and white, color ; various sizes.
Extent (Graphic Materials)	730 slides ; color ; 35 mm.
Extent (Graphic Materials)	1177 half frame slides, mostly color.
Extent (Graphic Materials)	3 slides ; color ; 126.
Location	American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af016007
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2011655455
Summary	Collection of papers and audiovisual materials representing the life work of ethnomusicologist Vida Chenoweth. Manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, and films mainly of her work with the Usarufa and numerous other people in Papua New Guinea, but culture groups from other places are also represented, including Vanuatu, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands New Zealand, Kenya, Zaire, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Ghana, South Africa, Cameroon, Senegal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Mali, Cameroon, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, and the United States. Includes work done by her students at Wheaton College and colleagues at the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Includes recording logs, analysis, song transcriptions, song texts, theses, correspondence, Chenoweth's diaries (1980s), and field notes. Sound recordings include music and spoken word from various provinces in Papua New Guinea, such as Eastern and Western Highlands, Madang, Morobe, East New Britain, New Ireland, and Irian Jaya provinces. Moving images include Chenoweth family films, as well as documentation about music and practices from throughout Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands, Vanuatu, and other regions. They also include content from the South Pacific Festival of the Arts in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.