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Series 1: Manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 Notebook with musical notation, transcriptions, and translations, of Kiowa, Navajo and Sioux songs., June 1938
1 notebook
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 5 notebooks, music pages, 1939
“Indian Music I”- Omaha, South Dakota, July 7-14, 1939
1 notebook
Field notes, musical notation, transcriptions, and translations which accompany recordings I-A-1 through XV-B-2.
“Indian Music II” Omaha, South Dakota, July 7 and July 17-19, 1939
1 notebook
Vocabulary (July 7, 1939); July 17-19, 1939, field notes, transcriptions, translations which accompany recordings VI-B-1 through XVIII-A-3.
“Indian Music III” Omaha, South Dakota, July 19-26, 1939
1 notebook
Field notes, transcriptions, translations which accompany recordings XVIII-B-2 through XXXI-A-2.
“Indian Music IV” Omaha, South Dakota, July 27-28, 1939
1 notebook
Field notes, transcriptions, translations which accompany recordings XXXI-B-1 through XXXXIII-A-5.
“Indian Music V” Omaha, South Dakota, July 31 - August 5, 1939
1 notebook
Field notes, transcriptions, translations which accompany recordings XXXVI-A-1, XXXVII-A-2, XXXXIV-A-1 through L-B-2.
Loose music pages, with musical notation and words relating to Omaha songs.
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 "Indian Music XI" Omaha, Navajo, Seminole; South Dakota, New Mexico, California (?), June 6, 1940
1 notebook
Field notes, transcriptions, translations which accompany recordings I-A-1 through XI. May relate to recordings in AFC 1940/019. One page with notes from 1942/1943.
BOX-FOLDER 1/4 Field notebook: Paiute; Santa Clara, Utah, 1941
1 notebook
Related recordings: AFC 1941/039
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 Field notebook: Primarily Navajo; Pine Springs, Arizona (1942) and Intermountain Indian School, Brigham City, Utah (1952), August 5-10, 1942 ; June 14 - July 2, 1952
1 notebook
Related recordings: AFC 1942/024 and AFC 1952/005
BOX-FOLDER 1/6 3 notebooks : Alaskan Eskimo, Arikara, Blackfeet, Crow, Flathead, Omaha, Navajo, Nez Perce, Pueblo, Sioux, Wasco, and Winnebago; northern Great Plains and Pacific Northwest, 1947
3 notebooks
Field notes related to recordings made in the summer of 1947 at Pine Ridge, South Dakota; Chemawa, Simnasho, and Pendleton, Oregon; Toppenish, Washington; Browning and Poplar, Montana; and Elbowoods and Fort Yates, North Dakota. Sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Related recordings: AFC 1947/012
BOX-FOLDER 1/7 3 notebooks: Various tribes and locations, 1950
3 notebooks
Field notes related to Native American music recorded in the summer of 1950 by Willard Rhodes. Songs are labeled as Puyallup, Canadian/Vancouver Island, Nisqually, Lummi, Snahomish, Skokomish, Snoqualmi, Samyama, Fraser River, Nooksack, Skagit, Samish, Nitinat, Makah, Clayoquot, Quinault, Kwakiutl, Quileute, Chinook, Twana, Chehallis, Bannock, Shoshone, and Arapaho. Included are Native American Shaker songs. Recordings were made at Auburn, Shelton, Marietta, Everson, La Conner, Marblemount, Neah Bay, La Push, Union, Washington; and at Fort Hall, Idaho. Sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Education Division. Related recordings: AFC 1950/027.
BOX-FOLDER 1/8 Field notebook: Apache, Cherokee, Comanche, Creek, Hopi, Kiowa, Navajo, Pawnee, Shoshone, and Tlingit, as well as indigenous Ecuadorian and Eskimo music; Arizona, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming, 1951
1 notebook
Field notes related to recordings of Apache, Cherokee, Comanche, Creek, Hopi, Kiowa, Navajo, Pawnee, Shoshone, and Tlingit, as well as indigenous Ecuadorian and Eskimo music. Recorded in Arizona, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming by Willard Rhodes, June 1951, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Related recordings: AFC 1951/001
BOX-FOLDER 1/9 Trip report, 1952
6 pages
Discusses fieldwork in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Utah by Willard Rhodes, summer 1952, to collect and record texts of Native American songs to be used in the series of albums of Music of the American Indian by Library of Congress. Related recordings: AFC 1952/005
BOX-FOLDER 2/10 1948-1954 correspondence (trips and record production)
BOX-FOLDER 2/11 1958-1979 correspondence
BOX-FOLDER 2/12 Publications by Rhodes
“The Use of the Computer in the Classification of Folk Tunes,” Studia Musicologica Tomus VII ( 1965 )
“Toward a Definition of Ethnomusicology,” American Anthropologist 58, No. 3 ( June 1956 )
“Society of Ethnomusicology,” African Music 1, No. 3 ( 1956 )
“A Study of Musical Diffusion Based on the Wandering of the Opening Peyote Song,” Journal of the International Folk Music Council X ( 1958 )
“Acculturation in North American Indian Music,” TAX: Acculturation in the Americas, Vol. II, Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of Americanists ( 1952 )
BOX-FOLDER 2/13 8 Government and mission publications from Sioux communities, including 1936 Constitution and By-laws of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, 1936
BOX-FOLDER 2/14 Miscellany
Lists, text transcriptions, concordance of tracks for Music of the American Indian albums with Rhodes recording numbers, draft of introduction to albums.
Series 2: Graphic Materials
BOX-FOLDER 2/15 Photographs of native peoples of Washington State, taken in conjunction with the fieldwork of Willard Rhodes. By Juel E. Lange (NW Coast)
17 black-and-white photographic prints, 8 x 10 in.
Selected photos were used in the published booklet accompanying the original edition of Music of the American Indian: Northwest (Puget Sound) AFS L34, recorded and edited by Willard Rhodes.
BOX-FOLDER 2/16 Photos – Sioux, schoolchildren, Pueblos, Navajo and BIA school photos from Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1 color, 22 black-and-white photographic prints (various sizes); 11 negatives

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