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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: Mkkwániwi at Sleeping Bear Point
Identifier(s): audio:9136; APSdigrec_0573; Series: 02; Recording Number: 11; Program Number: 02
Description: "Another incident from the eventful life of Joe's grandfather told by Joe."; 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--History; Ottawa Indians--Biography
Date: 1948

Title: The Man Carried off by an Eagle (Thunder)
Identifier(s): audio:9107; APSdigrec_0028; Series: 02; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 01
Description: A myth describing the origin of naming ceremonies.; 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--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1948-05-02

Title: Ottawa story
Identifier(s): audio:9101; APSdigrec_0023; Series: 02; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 01
Description: Contents not clearly identifiable from collection's documentation. Most likely a folkloric story.; 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
Date: 1948-05

Title: Story of Deer
Identifier(s): audio:6643; APSdigrec_0871; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 01
Description: First told in Ottawa, then English.
Source: Kurath, Gertrude P. Songs and dances of the rural Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, [1954-1955?]. (Mss.Rec.20);
Subject: Ottawa Indians--Folklore; Deer--Folklore
Date: 1954

Title: Ottawa story
Identifier(s): audio:9109; local: APSdigrec_0026; local: 02; local: 01; local: 04
Description: Contents not clearly identifiable from collection's documentation. Most likely a folkloric story.; Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949.
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1948-05

Title: Ottawa story
Identifier(s): audio:9104; APSdigrec_0024; Series: 02; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 02
Description: Contents not identifiable from collection's documentation.; 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
Date: 1948-05

Title: Underground People
Identifier(s): audio:9074; APSdigrec_0011; Series: 01; Recording Number: 02B; Program Number: 04
Description: "The Origin of the Pipigwe or 'Little Hawk' lineage to which Chief Ettawageshik belongs through his father. As written by Joe Ettawageshik, Fred's father, and edited by Fred."; 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 "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: 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

Title: Mkkwániwi and the Trial at St. Joseph
Identifier(s): audio:9132; APSdigrec_0574; Series: 02; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 01
Description: "Description of a murder trial in which Mkkwániwi [Joe Chingwa's grandfather] was one of the judging chiefs."; 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--History; Trials (Murder); Ottawa Indians--Legal status, laws, etc.; Ottawa Indians--Biography
Date: 1948

Title: David Kenosha gazing skyward
Identifier(s): graphics:7002
Description: Black and white photograph of an Ottawa man, in native attire, head-dress, beads, looking upward with one hand raised.; Part 2, Chapter 3 Part 1. Freeman Guide 104, 2623.
Creator: Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
Source: Religious Customs of Modern Michigan Algonquians (Mss.497.3.K965a); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.K965a-ead.xml
Subject: Indians of North America--Michigan; Ottawa Indians
Date: 1954

Title: Kidnapping
Identifier(s): audio:9098; APSdigrec_0034; Series: 02; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 03
Description: A semi-historical legend of a kidnapping from the Burt Lake band.; 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; Kidnapping
Date: 1948-05-06

Title: The Two Sisters
Identifier(s): audio:9118; APSdigrec_0572; Series: 02; Recording Number: 11; Program Number: 01
Description: A semi-historical legend about two sisters of the Harbor band.; 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; Sisters
Date: 1948

Title: Conversation among 8 Ottawa at Cross Village
Identifier(s): audio:9134; APSdigrec_0575; Series: 02; Recording Number: 13; Program Number: 01
Description: Informal group conversation in English with some Ottawa words. A short story about an Ottawa chief named Sagima is told in English by Mrs. Bill Norton, starting at 01:34.; 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; Conversation; Fish; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1948

Title: Christening Ceremony
Identifier(s): audio:9112; APSdigrec_0044; Series: 02; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 04
Description: "A speech and chant with horn rattle accompaniment of the kind used at a naming ceremony following an Ottawa feast. The speech is what Fred Ettawageshik remembered saying when he performed the ceremony at my adoption at the King's Supper, Jan. 6 1947."; Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949. Naming ceremony speech only transferred to reel-to-reel.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1948-05-01

Title: The Magic Arrow
Identifier(s): audio:9129; APSdigrec_0567; Series: 02; Recording Number: 10; Program Number: 01
Description: A legend about a poor boy who married the chief's daughter because of his possession of a magic arrow.; 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; Marriage--Folklore
Date: 1948-06

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: The Legend of the Corn
Identifier(s): audio:9086; APSdigrec_0008; Series: 01; Recording Number: 02B; 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; Corn; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08