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Title: Description of life at Seven Mile Point, etc.
Identifier(s): audio:9131; APSdigrec_0047; Series: 02; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 01
Description: Autobiographical material from 80-year-old Victoria Cooper's girlhood at Seven Mile Point and first years at Harbor Springs.; 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--Social life and customs
Date: 1948-05-20

Title: Kidnappers from Saginaw
Identifier(s): audio:9102; APSdigrec_0030; Series: 02; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 03
Description: A semi-historical legend about a child snatched from the Harbor band by hostile Indians from Saginaw.; 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; Kidnapping; Ottawa Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1948-05-02

Title: Ottawa-English Conversation at Tabandong Feast
Identifier(s): audio:9114; APSdigrec_0045; Series: 02; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 06
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--Social life and customs; Conversation; Fasts and feasts
Date: 1948-05-01

Title: A Girl Married to a Dog
Identifier(s): audio:9126; APSdigrec_0571; Series: 02; Recording Number: 10; Program Number: 05
Description: A story describing the marriage of a girl and a dog and the tragedy that resulted in the Ottawa prohibition against the marriage of a human to an animal.; 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; Dogs--Folklore; Marriage--Folklore; Human-animal relationships; Taboo; Ottawa Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1948-06

Title: Ottawa Hymns at Tabandong Feast
Identifier(s): audio:9127; APSdigrec_0040; Series: 02; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 03
Description: "The singing of the old Roman Catholic hymns based on French airs, in the Ottawa language, is not customary now at the Tabandong feast. They are usually sung only at wakes these days. On this occasion the hymns were sung by the host and hostess and the guests so that I could record them.... Old hymnals compiled by missionaries in Ottawa-Ojibwa dialect were used."; Epitoweng Naagmada ("Let Us All Sing Out Loud") -- Mammya Wamada ("Let Us See Him Entirely") -- Kitchitwa Marie ("Sing to") -- Unidentified hymn sung; 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--Social life and customs; Ottawa Indians--Music; Catholic Church--Hymns; Ottawa Indians--Religion; Fasts and feasts; Indians of North America--Michigan--Music
Date: 1948-05-01