Winnebago recordings

[Nancy E Hall]

	I was able to obtain Winnebago recordings from Indiana U.'s
Archives of the Languages of the World. I think in their library catalog
it's listed under the Archives of Traditional Music. Anyway, they will
make copies for you. The ones I got were of fairly good sound quality.
	I've appended a letter from a librarian describing some of what's
available. The Fraenkel tapes described are the most recent collection;
there were several others as well.

--Nancy Hall

Dept. of Linguistics
Rutgers University

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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:20:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Marilyn B Graf <mgraf at indiana.edu>
To: Nancy E Hall <nancyh at linguist.umass.edu>
Subject: Re: Winnebago recordings

Hello--

Thank you for your message.  Fraenkel's collection is the most recent
language collection, and probably the most useful.  We have Fraenkel's
handwritten transcriptions and translations for 10 of the 24 tapes.
I'll try to describe the tapes with transcriptions/translations to give
you a better idea of their contents.

OT 7694, Fraenkel tape 3:  7/11/59, Stella Stacy, informant.  Tape
duration: 34 minutes.  Contents:  Retellings of six stories dubbed from
cylinders recorded by Milford Chandler, ca. 1926, under our accession no.
54-196-F.  Fraenkel played copies of the cylinders for Stacy to re-elicit
material.  Transcriptions/translations (78 pp,) are available for most
stories.

Incidentally, just a few years ago we received an English translation of
all the cylinders, the work of William Hall of Black River Falls, WI.
The translations were done in the late 1960s and early 1970s at the
request of M. Chandler.  If you decide to order the Fraenkel tape above,
and think it  might be interesting to have a native speaker's translation,
I'll send you the pages of Hall's typescript that correspond to Fraenkel's
recording above.


OT 7698, Fraenkel tape 14.  7/14/59, Chief Daybreak and Jim Smoke.  Tape
duration: 34 minutes:  2 min. biography in Winnebago and English (not
transcribed), 12 min. Swadesh 100-word vocabulary list , 17 min. phrases
and sentences.  Transcriptions and translations for vocab. list and
phrases seem to be complete.

OT 7699, Fraenkel tape 15.  7/15/59, informants as above.  Duration: 33
minutes.  Sixteen sentences and ancillary eliciting; 12 min. "Hans Wolff
re-elicited,"  5 min. numbers and days of week.  Transc./transla. present
for nearly all of tape.

OT 7700, Fraenkel tape 16.  7/16/59, informants as above.  Duration: 32
minutes: minimal pairs; deictics, possessives, degrees of adjectives,
places and peoples, pairs, prepositions, colors, with/without, time
expressions.  Transc./transla. appears to be complete.

OT 7701, Fraenkel 17.  7/16/59, informants as above.  Thirty-four minutes:
verbal system, minimal pairs, Hans Wolff re-elicited, story and
translation, ancillary to tape 3.  Tr/tr appears to be complete.

OT 7702, Fraenkel 18.  7/22/59, Stella Stacy.  Thirty-three minutes:
20 min. ancillary eliciting for tape 3, 8 min. war story about young girl,
with translation, 5 min. transpositions and substitutions.

OT 7703, Fraenkel 19. 7/29/59, Stella Stacy.  Twenty-six minutes:
4 min. substitutions, 5 min. story and translation, 1 min. ancillary to
tape 15, 3 min. ancillary to tape 3, 4 min. rechecking Amelia Sussman
material, 7 min.  Woodpecker story and short song.  Tr/tr present for
about the first half of the tape.

OT 7704, Fraenkel 20.  7/23/59, Alvin Stacy.  Thirty-four minute reading
and correcting text of original myth from Paul Radin memoir.  One page
transcription, no translation.

OT 7712, Fraenkel 30.  7/28/59, Stella Stacy.  Twenty-seven minutes:  11
min. translation of Radin text, 1-2 min. each, mourning habits and
translation, ancillary eliciting to tape 3, Winnebago sunrise song and
translation, The Lord's Prayer recited by Mitchell White Rabbit,
conversation between Tillie and Alvin Stacy, pairs; some explanation of
translations.   Tr/tr present for most material on tape.

OT 7715, Fraenkel 36.  Various dates, Chief Daybreak, Jim Smoke and Alvin
Stacy.  Thirteen minutes, minimal pairs dubbed of all the other tapes
where they occur to be used for comparative purposes.  No
transcriptions/translations for this file, but a list of tapes from which
pairs were taken.

If you would like to proceed with an orders, please let me know what you
would like and I'll send you an order form that will include the cost of
copies.  The price of cassette copies is $15.00 per hour of material, and
CD copies, $25.00 per hour.  Photocopies are $.10 per page.  Cassette
copies we can provide in a matter of days, but a CD order might take 4-6
weeks because of a very long waiting list for orders using that format.

If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Best regards,
Marilyn


> Recording info.:  Recorded in 1959 by Gerd Fraenkel in Black River Falls,
> Dells, and Greenwood, Wisconsin.
> Notes:  Deposited by F. M. Voegelin at the Archives of Traditional Music
> in 1985, as part of the C. F. and F. M. Voegelin Archives of the Languages
> of the World, under option 1.
>  Winnebago tales, eliciting, and medicine rite music.
> Local note:  OT 7692--7715; EC 10" 1212--1225 (copies)
> Contents:  Medicine rite music and stories -- Retelling of stories --
> Biography in Winnebago -- Vocabulary list -- Reading and correcting text
> from Paul Radin's memoirs.
>       Location
> Call Numbers for: B-ATM
> 1) 85-575-F ATL      Stacks
>