Beschreibung:
"Initially published in 1982 in the Smithsonian Folklife Series, Thomas Vennum's The Ojibwa Dance Drum is widely recognized as a significant ethnography of woodland Indians."-From the afterword by Rick St. Germaine
Foreword by J Richard Haefer; The Ojibwa & Their Music; The Origin & Early History of the Dance Drum; The Drum Dance & Its Functions; The Decline of the Drum Dance; The Drum Proper; Decorations; Accessories; Variants; The Dog Feast; The Lac Court Oreilles Drum Dance, circa 1940; Drum Society Structures; Soundtrack Transcription of the Film 'The Drummaker'; Glossary of Ojibwa Terms; Key to Abbreviated Sources; Notes.