Hocank texts and recordings by Amelia Susman (1943)

[Kathleen Shea]

Dear Johannes,

I think I've found what you want.  I happen to have a copy of a catalogue
published by the Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional
Music, cited in another of their catalogues, _Early Field Recordings_
(1987), by Seeger and Spear:

    Lee, Dorothy Sara.  _Native North American Music and Oral Data:  A
Catalogue of Sound Recordings
    1893-1976_.  Indiana University Press, 1979.  This contains a listing of
Native American materials on                 cylinders, discs, and magnetic
tapes through 1976, with indexes.

Indiana might have a more recent cataloguing system by now with newer
catalogues, but the Lee catalogue has a typed listing for collectors Herzog,
George & Susman, Amelia, with accession number pre'54-236-F and the
following comments summarized by field:  culture group, Winnebago; culture
area, Northeast; earliest known date of recording, 1939; medium of
recording, disc-78; degree of public access, restricted; 3.5 hours; quality
good; ATL number (the identification number for listening copies in the
Archives Tape Library), 414-420; documentataion adequate; subject
descriptions for songs--arrow, buffalo dance, ceremonial-night spirit,
curing, folktale, flute, green corn dance, heruska, love, magic, medicine,
medicine dance, Menomini, moccasin, morning, otter skin, peyote, shoot each
other, soldier sun, victory dance, vision, war, water drum.

I wonder if nowadays it might be possible to search online through the
Archives' field collection holdings.  I hope this helps.

Kathy Shea

----- Original Message -----
From: "Johannes Helmbrecht"
<johannes.helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 8:52 AM
Subject: Hocank texts and recordings by Amelia Susman (1943)


> Dear Siouanists,
>
> Amelia Susmann mentions in the preface to her PhD Dissertation "The
Accentual
> System of Winnebago" (1943) that she had recorded "ritualistic and
narrative
> (Hocank) texts amounting to some fifteen thousand words" as well as a
dozen of
> "records on the phonograph" together with Dr. Herzog. Does anyone has an
idea
> whether these materials still exist somewhere, or where it makes sense to
look
> for in order to find them. Does anyone know who Dr. Herzog was?
>
> Every hint is wellcome - with my best wishes and seasonal greetings
>
> Johannes
>
>
> --
>
> Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht
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