http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Frances_Densmore_recording_Mountain_Chief2.jpg/481px-Frances_Densmore_recording_Mountain_Chief2.jpg
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
It is on the cover of Indian Blues:American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879-1934, by John W. Troutman, as well as being in the interior, where we are informed that the original caption was "Piegan Indian, Mountain Chief, having his voice recorded by ethnologist Frances Densmore."
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
It is on p. 39 of Marybeth Hamilton's In Search of the Blues, where it is captioned The earliest known photograph of a Graphophone in use. Frances Densmore records Blackfoot leader Mountain Chief.
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Wikipedia description sez:
English: Part of a series of pictures depicting Frances Densmore at the Smithsonian Institution in 1916 during a recording session with Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief for the Bureau of American Ethnology.Library of Congress caption: "Piegan Indian, Mountain Chief, listening to recording with ethnologist Frances Densmore, 2/9/1916."National Geographic caption: "This 1916 image of Frances Densmore and Blackfoot leader Mountain Chief listening to a cylinder recording has become a symbol of the early songcatcher era."
Library of Congress caption: "Piegan Indian, Mountain Chief, listening to recording with ethnologist Frances Densmore, 2/9/1916."National Geographic caption: "This 1916 image of Frances Densmore and Blackfoot leader Mountain Chief listening to a cylinder recording has become a symbol of the early songcatcher era."
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
And links to Library of Congress here:http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/npcc.20061/where the caption is Blackfoot Chief, Mountain Chief making phonographic record at Smithsonian, 2/9/1916
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
That's all I got for now.
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
*waits for Tim E*