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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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65257 2023-05-15T14:19:15+02:00 The Earliest Sound Recordings among North American Inuit Ross, W. Gillies 1984-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65257 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65257/49171 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65257 ARCTIC; Vol. 37 No. 3 (1984): September: 195–320; 291-292 1923-1245 0004-0843 Anthropology History Inuit Music Sound recordings Alaska Greenland Nunavut Sibir' Russian Federation info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1984 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:19Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic eskimo* Greenland Hudson Bay inuit Nunavut Alaska University of Calgary Journal Hosting Canada Greenland Hudson Hudson Bay Nunavut Sibir’ ENVELOPE(158.683,158.683,68.500,68.500) ARCTIC 37 3 |
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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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The Earliest Sound Recordings among North American Inuit |
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