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Series 9: American Indian-related publications by others
BOX-FOLDER 9/1 American Indian material-Bloch, Ernest, 1928
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0901
BOX-FOLDER 9/2 American Indian material-Cresson, H.T., 1883
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0902
BOX-FOLDER 9/3 American Indian material-Fillmore, John Comfort, 1899
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0903
BOX-FOLDER 9/4 American Indian material-Fletcher, Alice C., 1915
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0904
BOX-FOLDER 9/5 American Indian material-Gustaver, 1923
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0905
BOX-FOLDER 9/6 American Indian material-Hague, Eleanor, 1915
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0906
BOX-FOLDER 9/7 American Indian material-Herzog, George (1 of 2), 1926-1935
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0907
BOX-FOLDER 9/8 American Indian material-Herzog, George (2 of 2), 1936
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0908
BOX-FOLDER 9/9 American Indian material-Herzog and Linton, 1935
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0909
BOX-FOLDER 9/10 American Indian material-Humphrey, Reverend William Brewster, 1911
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0910
BOX-FOLDER 9/11 American Indian material-Kanhere, S.G., 1926
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0911
BOX-FOLDER 9/12 American Indian material-Lachmann, Robert, 1929
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0912
BOX-FOLDER 9/13 American Indian material-Lawson, Robert Campbell, 1926
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0913
BOX-FOLDER 9/14 American Indian material-Loring, Harold, 1906
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0914
BOX-FOLDER 9/15 American Indian material-Rhodes, Willard, 1943
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0915
BOX-FOLDER 9/16 American Indian material-Roberts, Helen and Haeberlin, Herman, 1918
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0916
BOX-FOLDER 9/17 American Indian material-Swanton, John
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0917
BOX-FOLDER 9/18 American Indian material-Titus, Maude Essex, 1920
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0918
BOX-FOLDER 9/19 American Indian material-Watt, Henry O., 1924
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0919
BOX-FOLDER 9/20 American Indian material-Sargeant, Winthrop
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms0920
Series 10: Scrapbooks and miscellany
BOX-FOLDER 10/1 Original housings for photographic materials
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms1001
BOX-FOLDER 10/2 Miscellany 8 (two photographs), 1924, 1940
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms1002
Extent: 1 black-and-white photographic print (5x7 inch); 1 black-and-white photographic print (8x10 inch)
BOX-FOLDER 10/3 Photographs, 1912-1917, 1949
Portraits of Frances Densmore
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms1003
Extent: 2 black-and-white photographic prints (5x7 inch); 1 black-and-white photographic print (8x10 inch)
BOX-FOLDER 10/4 One paper item (mounted), 1907
Contains a photocopy of the original drawing in Box-Folder 10/4 as well as a typed description of the item.
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms1004
BOX-FOLDER 10/5 Drawing-Gay-me-wun-aush, 1907
Original drawing of six songs of the Chippewa created by Gay-me-wun-aush. The songs are numbers 103, 104, 105, 106, and 107 on pages 114-115 in the Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 45 (the fifth song is omitted).
Creator: Gay-me-wun-aush
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms1005
BOX-FOLDER 10/6 Chippewa birchbark drawing
Birchbark drawing depicting a Chippewa mnemonic.
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms1006
Extent: 1 birchbark drawing
Phonodeik photograph of Ute woman's dance, 1917
Photographer: Dayton C. Miller
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_ms1100
Extent: 1 black-and-white phonodeik photographic print (38 feet)
BOX-FOLDER 11/1 Typed slip accompanying Ute woman's dance (phonodeik)
BOX-FOLDER 11/2 Dayton C. Miller inventory of material sent to Frances Densmore
BOX-FOLDER 11/3 Dayton C. Miller manuscripts, 1916-1927
BOX 15 Scrapbook #1, 1889-1900
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_0100
BOX 16 Scrapbook #2, 1901-1911
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_0200
BOX 17 Scrapbook #3, 1911-1926
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_0300
BOX 18 Scrapbook #4, 1927-1929
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_0400
BOX 19 Scrapbook #5, 1930-1933
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_0500
BOX 20 Scrapbook #6, 1934-1938
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_0600
BOX 21 Scrapbook #7, 1939-1949
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_0700
BOX 22 Scrapbook #8, 1949-1954
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_0800
OVERSIZE FOLDER OS01 Oversize newsclippings from scrapbook #8 and #9, 1949-1954
Newsclippings from scrapbook #8 include: "Dr. Densmore," Minneapolis Star and "Red Wing Woman to be Awarded Citation," Daily Republican. Newsclippings from scrapbook #9 include: "More Facts About Indians," Newark Evening News.
BOX 23 Scrapbook #9, 1954-1957
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002_0900
Series 11: Photographs
All photograph titles were composed by Judith Gray, based on her research.
All digital files for Series 11 can be found within the same digital object identifier: afc1944002.
Digital content available onsite: afc1944002
Subseries 1: Lantern slides
Slides AFC1944/002: PH001 to PH050 were used by Frances Densmore in a lecture in Minot, South Dakota in 1935.
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH001 Lake in Minnesota or Wisconsin (white birches)
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Same scene as AFC 1944/002: PH051
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH002 Bark-covered lodge, unfamiliar-style hand drum, location unidentified, though northern
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH003 Gemiwunac, Sept.-Oct. 1907 (Chippewa singer from Leech Lake, Minnesota), reverse of Plate 9, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 45 (Chippewa Music), September - October 1907
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Version of AFC 1944/002: PH083
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH004 Chippewa Midewiwin song mnemonics (songs 103-104, 106-107 on pages 114-115, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 45)
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Same as AFC 1944/002: PH085
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH005 "Love-Charm Song" page 91 in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 45
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Cropped form of AFC 1944/002: PH078
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH006 Possibly painted council tent at Bull Head, South Dakota (see different view on Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61, Plate 72)
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Same as AFC 1944/002: PH069
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH007 Shuffling-feet dance (Standing Rock Sioux), different view from Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61, Plate 78
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Same as AFC 1944/002: PH067
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH008 Shuffling-feet dance song transcription, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61, page 478
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
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