Details

Subject(s)

• Butterfly dance (Hopi dance) [Browse]
• Folklore—New Mexico—San Juan Pueblo [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—New Mexico—Dance [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—Folklore—New Mexico [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—New Mexico—Music [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—New Mexico—Religion and mythology [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—New Mexico—Rites and ceremony [Browse]
• Initiation rites—New Mexico—San Juan Pueblo [Browse]
• Oral tradition—New Mexico—San Juan Pueblo [Browse]
• Pueblo Indians—Oral histories [Browse]
• Pueblo Indians—Religion and mythology [Browse]
• Tewa Indians—Oral histories [Browse]
• Tewa Indians—Religion and mythology [Browse]
• Tewa language [Browse]
• San Juan Pueblo (N.M.)—Religious life and customs [Browse]
• San Juan Pueblo (N.M.)—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Audiotapes—20th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1959-1965

Restrictions note

The collection is open for research.

Summary note

• Consists of phonotapes of approximately fifty-five hours duration made primarily at San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, by anthropologist Alfonso Ortiz to help preserve the language and the culture, and to perpetuate the oral tradition, of the Tewa-speaking Pueblo.
• The collection consists of ten phonotapes of approximately fifty-five hours duration made primarily at San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, by Ortiz to help preserve the language and the culture and to perpetuate the oral tradition of the Indian tribe. The tapes contain myths, folktales, prayers, speeches, chants including dance songs, the Mattachines song series, the butterfly ceremony, and the ceremony of man, and discussions with tribal elders about ritual initiations and religious societies of the Tewa-speaking Pueblo.

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