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A Native American Tribe Revives Its Culture With The Help Of Old Wax-Cylinder Recordings by Artsjournal1

“In 1890, just months before the murder of some hundred and fifty Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee, a mustachioed anthropologist named Jesse Walter Fewkes dragged a state-of-the-art Edison phonograph to Passamaquoddy country [in northeastern Maine]. This was during the height of ‘salvage anthropology,’ an attempt to document the many tribes that were being massacred into […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06am on January 31, 2019

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