Musicological analysis of music, with atttempt to relate musical patterns to "present ritual function," with some consideration of speculative questions of chronology and individual creativity.

Music and interviews recorded by the anthropologist Gertrude Kurath in 1957 at Santa Fe and Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, New Mexico, formerly referred to as San Juan Pueblo. The recordings contain group singing performances of Deer Dance Songs, Yellow Corn Dance Songs, Butterfly Dance Songs, and interviews on these songs and general Tewa music and dance terminology with primary consultant, Antonio Garcia. Additional Deer Dance Songs given by David Garcia.

The draft of an unpublished book, lacking chapter VI, Ottawa feasts. Attempts, by detailed analysis and description of present-day customs in historical perspective, to evaluate powwows, feasts, and camp meetings in Ottawa culture. 12 chapters give brief history, biographies, and locations; describe festivals and dances in detail; analyze native songs (scores); describe a Chippewa Methodist camp meeting and hymns, with analysis of hymn texts and tunes. Presents Ottawa "superstitions" (bear walking, medicines, herbs), 42 Ottawa stories (see Jane Willets, Ottawa material, Mss.Rec.1), material on natural-history usage. Attempts to reconstruct function of ritual, with historical references. Later published as The art of tradition: Sacred music, dance, and myth of Michigan's Anishinaabe (Michigan State University Press, 2009).

Analysis of music; scores of songs, dances.

Field recordings made at Cochiti Pueblo and Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1957 with Celestino Quintana of numerous dances, discussions of dances, song texts, and interviews for Keresan terminology and sound patterns.

This collection consists predominantly of numerous songs of many kinds from Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. The final recording in the collection is a set of four Ponca songs.

A compilation LP record of Native American musical and dance recordings made by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath at numerous locations from 1952 to 1954, published in 1956. Also includes a 20-page booklet with extensive background information, biographical info on the performers, explanations of songs, musical analysis, and sheet music.

Traditional and Christian songs in the Ottawa and Chippewa languages, recorded with numerous singers in multiple communities in Michigan in the mid-1950s. Recorded as part of Gertrude Kurath's broader study of contemporary religion and music among Anishinaabe communities in Michigan. Includes traditional songs, Catholic and Methodists hymns, and Free Methodist revival meetings, including some benedictions. Also includes one talk entitled, "Longfellow's Use of Michigan Indian Tales."

The first section (Series I) of this recording collection consists of 13 episodes of the radio program "Red Man in Michigan," broadcast on WUOM radio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. These programs use extensive clips from field recordings made by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, and cover a wide range of historical and contemporary topics directed to a general non-Native audience. Series II consists of tapes including Ottawa language hymns from a series of programs titled "Comparisons of Chippewa Revival Hymns, Michigan and Ontario, 1953-1962"; interviews on the organization of United Church, on the organization of Camp Meetings, on missionary experiences, especially at Perry Island and Moose Point, Ontario; recordings of powwows at Ann Arbor, Lansing, and Hastings, including some Kiowa performances by John Bosin; an interview with Jim Eagle Shaffer; and an interview with Anna Fulton, Douglas Fulton, and Bruce Fulton on socio-economic conditions and racial discrimination against Native people in Michigan.

Audio recordings recorded by William N. Fenton.