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The Singing Wax
The Indian cylinders
at the Canadian Museum of Civilization
in Ottawa.
座落在渥太华附近的加蒂诺的加拿大文明博物馆，因为圆筒数字化规划的项目，2003年我荣幸地将我当时最后的一台考古留声机送往那里。 在那里，我不仅受到非常热情地接待，在我安装这台机器时，我还被现场所见和所闻深深震撼了。 这个博物馆拥有大量的圆筒唱片藏品，其中大部分都是美洲印第安人录制的。这是著名的人类学家马里厄·巴赫布（Marius Barbeau）的藏品。 Marius Barbeau, a Canadian ethnologist (1883-1969) had an interest in Canadian traditional music and American Indians. After a law degree, he studied anthropology in Oxford and then at the Sorbonne. |
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He held a post at the Geology Commission in 1911 and set about studying the culture of the Hurons of Lorette near Quebec and later of the American Indians of western Canada. From 1914 onwards, he took down folk and traditional French Canadian songs. The whole of his scientific publications represents an imposing bibliography. Barbeau worked as an ethnologist and anthropologist at the National Museum of Man in Ottawa until he retired in 1948. He was taken to his work until his death, producing an extensive collection of written and sound archives which he widely used in his numerous publications dedicated to traditional songs and folk tales of the French-Canadian civilizations as well as those of the American Indians.
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Marius Barbeau, pioneer Canadian folklorist, |
These sound archives consist of about 3000 phonographic cylinders and are now featured among the rich collections of the Canadian Museum of Civilizations. Barbeau used the cylinder phonograph and made field recordings for his research from 1911 to 1948. The collection also includes cylinders that are the result of the work of other anthropologists. The oldest cylinders in this collection were recorded in 1898.
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We can mention the American Indian cylinder collections of : - Albert.B. Reagan, William H. Mechling, Wilson Dallam Wallis (Hurons
Indians, Wyandott, Iroquois, Malecite, Ojibwa, Sioux : 1911-1913) - As for French Canadian traditionals, in addition to the collections of Edouard-Zotique Massicotte (about 920 cylinders), and Gustave Lanctot (24 cylinders), there is also that of Marius Barbeau (about 550 cylinders).
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These voices which were picked up for the sake of study and preservation have remained silent for a very long time. They now resonate afresh on the shores of the Outaouais river.
Paris, May 5th 2003
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