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Title: Legend of the Maškuo'tens
Identifier(s): audio:9130; APSdigrec_0042; Series: 02; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 02
Description: Story of an Ottawa battle with the Indians who formerly lived in the same region of Michigan.; Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore; Ottawa Indians--History
Date: 1948-04-30

Title: Nanaboju and the Bear's Skull
Identifier(s): audio:9120; APSdigrec_0043; Series: 02; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 03
Description: "Further adventures of Nanaboju, the Ottawa culture hero."; Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends
Date: 1948-04-30

Title: Origin of Red Osier
Identifier(s): audio:9137; APSdigrec_0041; Series: 02; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 01
Description: Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Ducks--Folklore
Date: 1948-04-30

Title: Adoption
Identifier(s): audio:9144; APSdigrec_0590; Series: 02; Recording Number: 17; Program Number: 15
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Michigan--Music
Date: 1947

Title: Word list from "Why Some Trees have Knobs on Them and the Birches Grow in Clumps"
Identifier(s): audio:9069; APSdigrec_0012; Series: 01; Recording Number: 02B; Program Number: 05
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Trees--Folklore; Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: The Story of Bagog, the Skeleton
Identifier(s): audio:9083; APSdigrec_0010; Series: 01; Recording Number: 02B; Program Number: 03
Description: A story describing puberty fasting.; Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Puberty rites; Skeleton--Folklore; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Why Some Trees have Knobs on Them and the Birches Grow in Clumps
Identifier(s): audio:9089; APSdigrec_0006; Series: 01; Recording Number: 01A; Program Number: 06
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Trees--Folklore; Birch; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Nanabojo Creates the Indian [second telling by Fred Ettawageshik]
Identifier(s): audio:9076; APSdigrec_0020; Series: 01; Recording Number: 04A; Program Number: 01
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Nanabojo Creates the Indian
Identifier(s): audio:9080; APSdigrec_0019; Series: 01; Recording Number: 03B; Program Number: 06
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: How the Bear Lost his Tail
Identifier(s): audio:9090; APSdigrec_0001; Series: 01; Recording Number: 01A; Program Number: 01
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Bears; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Word list from "The Story of Bagog, the Skeleton"
Identifier(s): audio:9088; APSdigrec_0014; Series: 01; Recording Number: 03B; Program Number: 01
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: The Story of the Robin
Identifier(s): audio:9082; APSdigrec_0017; Series: 01; Recording Number: 03B; Program Number: 04
Description: A story describing puberty fasting.; Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Puberty rites; Robins--Folklore; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Why the Great Lakes are Receding
Identifier(s): audio:9087; APSdigrec_0021; Series: 01; Recording Number: 04A; Program Number: 02
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Great Lakes (North America); Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Creation of Mackinac Island by Nanabojo
Identifier(s): audio:9070; APSdigrec_0015; Series: 01; Recording Number: 03B; Program Number: 02
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Mackinac Island (Mich. : Island); Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: The Story of Nanabojo and the Leeks
Identifier(s): audio:9073; APSdigrec_0004; Series: 01; Recording Number: 01A; Program Number: 04
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Why the Birchbark has Streaks
Identifier(s): audio:9078; APSdigrec_0009; Series: 01; Recording Number: 02B; Program Number: 02
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Birch; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: The Legend of Manitou Islands and Sleeping Bear Point
Identifier(s): audio:9079; APSdigrec_0002; Series: 01; Recording Number: 01A; Program Number: 02
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: North Manitou Island (Mich.); South Manitou Island (Mich.); Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Mich.); Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Wooden Whistles
Identifier(s): audio:9071; APSdigrec_0005; Series: 01; Recording Number: 01A; Program Number: 05
Description: Story of the origin of a belief that blowing whistles will call up snakes in the springtime.; Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Snakes; Whistles; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Word list from "Underground People"
Identifier(s): audio:9081; APSdigrec_0018; Series: 01; Recording Number: 03B; Program Number: 05
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Word List from "Wooden Whistles"
Identifier(s): audio:9072; APSdigrec_0013; Series: 01; Recording Number: 02B; Program Number: 06
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08