The Earliest Sound Recordings among North American Inuit

On 7 November 1903, Captain George Comer of the American whaling schooner Era recorded on a phonograph a few songs of the Aivilingmiut and Qaernermiut in northwestern Hudson Bay (Ross, 1984:73). These appear to have been the earliest sound recordings ever made among the Inuit of Canada and Alaska. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: Ross, W. Gillies
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1984
Subjects:
Anthropology
History
Inuit
Music
Sound recordings
Alaska
Greenland
Nunavut
Sibir'
Russian Federation
Canada
Hudson
Hudson Bay
Sibir’
Arctic
eskimo*
inuit
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65257
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Summary:On 7 November 1903, Captain George Comer of the American whaling schooner Era recorded on a phonograph a few songs of the Aivilingmiut and Qaernermiut in northwestern Hudson Bay (Ross, 1984:73). These appear to have been the earliest sound recordings ever made among the Inuit of Canada and Alaska. The recordings made by Diamond Jenness among the Copper Eskimos (1914-1916) and those made by Christian Leden among the Padlimiut (1914-1916) have hitherto been considered as the earliest, but Comer's first recording preceded these by more than a decade and his pioneering work should be recognized.

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