Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — “CANNING” INDIAN MUSIC [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

“CANNING” INDIAN MUSIC

Miss Frances Densmore of the United States museum in Washington probably knows more abbutTndl&n music than anyone else in this country { She is compiling a book of the songs of the red man. Miss Densmore has made photographic records of the tribal songs in all parts of the country. Here she is. shown transposing the music from the phonograph to notes that be played on the piano. The job of collecting Indian music ,is a difficult one, for many of the songs being of a religious nature, the Indians are loath to give them to the white man. •,