Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1910 — AFTER INDIAN TRIBAL SONGS [ARTICLE]

AFTER INDIAN TRIBAL SONGS

Woman Agent of Government Is No Novice in Gathering and Pre- ■■ -< serving Them. . ~

Brainerd, Minn.—As agent of the bureau of ethnology at Washington, Miss Frances Densmore passed through the city on her way to the Leech lake Indian reservation, where she will make~a special study of the music of the Chippewas, submitting her report on the Chippewas, having visited the Red Lake, Mille Lacs and other reservations. Several hundred of the tribal songs have been recorded on the pbonograph and sent to the Smithsonian Institution for preservation and reference. Miss Densmore has taken these records, transcribed them in piano score and analyzed them scientifically. She has also made a study of Filipino music, and thinks the Chippewa music is of a high grade and most excellent, occupying a higher plane than the few tones embraced in the music originating hi our island possessions. The voice of one of the leading chiefs of the northern Chippewas, Geml-Urlnac. is preserved in a -phonograph record at Washington. Of special interest to Miss Densmore will be the Indian celebration at the Leech lake agency. One of the features furnishing her with rich material for study will be the war and squaw dances of the Chippewas.