MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1948
Abstract:
Southern Tepehuan songs and stories originally recorded on wire by John Alden Mason in Xoconostle and Durango, Mexico in Februrary 1948, with consultants Gerónimo Aguilar and Pedro Aguilar. Music includes mitote songs and some traditional and popular songs. Stories include autobiographical stories and numerous unidentified texts. Mason's trip to the Tepehuan Indians in Mexico was sponsored in part by the American Philosophical Society and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.11
Extent:
4 reel(s)
Subjects:
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Durango (Durango, Mexico) | Indians of Mexico -- Durango (State) | Indians of Mexico -- Languages | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Sound recordings | Tepehuan Indians | Tepehuan Indians -- Music | Tepehuan Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Tepehuan Indians -- Social conditions | Tepehuan Indians -- Social life and customs | Tepehuan language | Xoconostle (Durango, Mexico)