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Title:	Tahitian field recordings
Year of Release:	[1923]
Audio:	Stream cylinder 8667: Download: MP3 file (2-4 MB) (Usage info)
Audio:	Stream cylinder 8668: Download: MP3 file (2-4 MB) (Usage info)
Audio:	Stream cylinder 8669: Download: MP3 file (2-4 MB) (Usage info)
Audio:	Stream cylinder 8670: Download: MP3 file (2-4 MB) (Usage info)
Audio:	Stream cylinder 8671: Download: MP3 file (2-4 MB) (Usage info)
Note:	Custom Blue Amberol recordings, possibly from a larger set of brown wax field recordings that were recorded in Faaone Tahiti, and possibly privately pressed as Blue Amberol cylinders by Edison in New Jersey. Recordings were possibly made by anthropologists Frank Stimson or Edward S. C. Handy in 1923. Four of the five cylinders are stamped "Tahiti-#" on the rim and handwritten notes on the boxes say "Himene Chorus, Faaone, Tahiti, 1923 (Handy)."
Local Note:	Preservation and digitization of these cylinders funded by a donation from the Liebhaber Family, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Collection Information:	Donated by Mira Marshall, 2009. Papers of Handy and Stimson are at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii.
Personal Name:	Stimson, Frank.
Personal Name:	Handy, E. S. Craighill (Edward Smith Craighill), 1892-
Subject:	Music--Tahiti.
Original Item Location:	Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 8667
Original Item Location:	Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 8668
Original Item Location:	Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 8669
Original Item Location:	Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 8670
Original Item Location:	Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 8671

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