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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: 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: A story about the old custom of fasting
Identifier(s): audio:4108; APSdigrec_0195; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 02
Description: Phrase-by-phrase translation into English by Mr. Elk of a played-back recording made by him in Chippewa/Ojibwe.
Source: Pierce, Joe E. Recordings for study of the Shawnee, Kickapoo, Ojibwa, and Sauk and Fox, [1951-1953]. (Mss.Rec.14);
Subject: Fasting; Ojibwa Indians--Social life and customs; Puberty rites; typology
Date: 1951

Title: Osage Inlonska Society ("Drum District") War Dance at Pawhuska: Evening performance (Tape 2) [Side A]
Identifier(s): audio:6323; local: APSdigrec_0216; local: 10; local: 01
Description: War Dance Series -- Speaker: announcements -- Series of War Dances -- Speaker: announcements -- War Dance Series; Recorded at Inlonska Dance Arbor, 'Indian Village,' Pawhuska, June 13, 1974. Hosts: Pawhuska Drum District (Ed Red Eagle; Head Committeeman and speaker; John Henry Mashunkashey, Drumkeeper). Singers: Morris Lookout (Osage) and Ponca Singers from the Heooska Society. Dancers: Pawhuska Inlonska members, visitors from the Osage Grayhorse and Hominy Drum Districts, the Ponca heooska and Otoe Elunska. In society performances, each war dance song is followed by a 'tail' restating the theme, during which only appointed 'Tail Dancers' may dance.; This recording has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive or private. Reproduction and remote access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Osage dance; Osage Indians--Music; Ponca dance; Ponca Indians--Music; Oto dance; Puberty rites; Powwows--Oklahoma
Date: 1974-06-13

Title: Ottawa song
Identifier(s): audio:9099; APSdigrec_0025; Series: 02; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 03
Description: Contents not clearly identifiable from collection's table of contents. May be "Puberty Fast Song," described as "Joe Chingwa's own composition . . . supposed to be sung by a boy undergoing the puberty fast in his little lodge."; 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 Indians--Music; Puberty rites; Indians of North America--Michigan--Music
Date: 1948-05

Title: Kuna female puberty rite song
Identifier(s): audio:9771; APSdigrec_4077; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 01
Description: Introduction and interspersed translations in Spanish. From a reel copy made for Floyd G. Lounsbury from Reina Torres de Iannello's original reel recording. For more information, see the Clifford Evans correspondence in the Lounsbury papers.
Source: Floyd Glenn Lounsbury papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.95-ead.xml
Subject: Indians of Central America--Panama; Cuna Indians; Cuna language; Cuna Indians--Music; Cuna Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Puberty rites
Date: 1959-01-25