[Meda songs] – Antique Print
![[Meda songs], [1851] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ba/bae1f4604299-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with [Meda songs], an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Plate 51 of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's *Historical and Statistical Information* presents Ojibwa "Meda" songs alongside the written marks used to record them. The Meda, or Midewiwin, was the Ojibwa Grand Medicine Society, whose members sang chants during healing and initiation rites. Army officer and artist Seth Eastman, who spent years in the upper Midwest, painted the original watercolor, which this chromolithograph reproduces in color. The plate is worth a close look for its pairing of song with symbolic notation, a record of how the chants were preserved outside the oral tradition.
| Created / published | [1851] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1850-1860.Chromolithographs Color 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States / Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo, 1851-57, Plate 51, No. I. After a watercolor drawing by Capt. Seth Eastman. Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 22. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Music--1850-1860. Ojibwa Indians--Music--1850-1860. Hieroglyphics--1850-1860. Musical notation--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,117 × 4,078 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218660 |
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