List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Traveling with Frances Densmore
Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick Patterson
Part 1. Frances Densmore’s Life and Work
1. She Always Said, “I Heard an Indian Drum”
Michelle Wick Patterson
2. Becoming Two White Buffalo Woman
Michelle Wick Patterson
3. By Train, by Boat, by Model T
Joan M. Jensen
4. Getting the Depression Blues
Joan M. Jensen
5. Cut, Paste, Delete, Preserve
Michelle Wick Patterson
6. Gone but Not Quite Forgotten
Joan M. Jensen
Part 2. Conversations
7. Miss Densmore Meets the Ojibwes: Frances Densmore’s
Ethnomusicology Studies among the Grand Portage Ojibwes in
1905
Nancy L. Woolworth
8. Songs of Healing: Music Therapy of Native America, a Medical
Ethnomusicology Study
Stephanie Thorne
9. Familiar Faces: Densmore’s Minnesota Photographs
Bruce White
10. Collection with a Mission: Frances Densmore’s Chippewa
Artifacts
Carolyn Gilman
11. An Archival Dilemma: The Densmore Cylinder Recording
Speeds
Judith Gray
12. Frances Densmore’s Chippewa Music
Thomas J. Vennum Jr.
Conclusion: A Picture Is Worth Deconstructing
Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick Patterson
Note on Sources: How to Continue Traveling with
Densmore
Index
Joan M. Jensen is a professor emerita of history at New Mexico State University. She is the author of several books, including Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850–1925. Michelle Wick Patterson is an associate professor of history at Mount St. Mary’s University. She is the author of Natalie Curtis Burlin: A Life in Native and African American Music (Nebraska, 2010).
"Looking at and listening to Densmore's research again is a new
starting point for how we understand anthropology, ethnography,
indigenous societies, and the gender and other dimensions of our
own society."—Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database
By providing this rich account of Densmore's life, times, and
thought, the volume contributes more than just a biography of a
single scholar. A thoughtful meditation on how intertwined lives
are made, remembered, and forgotten, it deserves to be read by
anyone interested in the history of anthropology or museum
studies."—Alex Golub, Museum Anthropology Review
“Frances Densmore’s archive of Native American music, photographs,
and material culture is indispensable to scholars. Yet she remains
an elusive figure. Travels with Frances Densmore takes us into her
world. It is a moving, engrossing record of a woman’s
self-professionalization and devotion to science at the turn of the
twentieth century.”—Sally Cole, professor of anthropology at
Concordia University and author of Ruth Landes: A Life in
Anthropology
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