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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)
Cropped form of AFC 1944/002: PH082
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH009 Unidentified
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH010 Unidentified
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH011 White-Buffalo-Walking (Teton Sioux), Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61, Plate 11
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Cropped form of AFC 1944/002: PH092
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH012 Buffalo Boy (Santee-Yanktonai man), similar to Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61, Plate 9 (see also page 91)
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Cropped form of AFC 1944/002: PH088
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH013 Siyaka (Yanktonai-Teton), Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61, Plate 1
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Cropped form of AFC 1944/002: PH089
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH014 Possibly Mrs. Good Eagle (Pawnee), see Plate 2c in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 93 (opposite page 1)
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH015 Brave Buffalo (Standing Rock Sioux singer), Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61, Plate 25
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Cropped form of AFC 1944/002: PH080
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH016 Eagle Shield (Standing Rock Sioux singer), Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61, Plate 40
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Cropped form of AFC 1944/002: PH081
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH017 Eagle Shield capturing Assiniboin woman (his drawing), Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61, Plate 65
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Cropped form of AFC 1944/002: PH084
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH018 Eagle Shield song transcription, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61, page 396
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
Cropped form of AFC 1944/002: PH077
Item ID: AFC 1944/002: PH019 "Crow Heart's earth lodge," (Mandan), Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 80, Plate 3a]
BOX 12 Extent: 1 lantern slide (3.25 x 4 inch)
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