Reproduction of Cylinder Recordings at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley

Abstract

The Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley has a collection of recordings dating from 1902 to the present. It includes some 2700 cylinder, disc, wire, and magnetic tape recordings of dances, music, and spoken texts, principally of the western North American Indi-ans. Among those whose field work is represented are Samuel A. Barrett, Edward W. Gifford, Pliny E. Goddard, and Alfred L.Kroeber.