Virginia Mae Jones - Oral history (06/2012)

Virginia Mae Jones - Oral history (06/2012)

Oral history interview with Virginia Mae Jones, Shoshone-Paiute from Duck Valley Reservation (Owyhee, NV) on 06/2012

Virginia Jones is a Shoshone-Paiute from the Duck Valley reservation. She begins her oral history by describing the different types of drums that she currently own and how they are used in powwows, hand games, or circle dancing. She also tells us about how she got interested in drumming along with those individuals which taught her drumming through the years. This also included how to take care of your drum when traveling to different events, and moreover how different materials can create different sounds with the drum.

Video Pending

Read Virginia Mae Jones Oral History Transcript [pdf file]

Great Basin Indian Archives

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Great Basin Indian Archives

06/2012 [June 2012]; 2012 June

Norm Cavanaugh [interviewer]; James Hedrick [GBIA/VHC]; University of Utah SYLAP [streaming video]; Great Basin College; BARRICK Gold of North America

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Consent form on file (administrator access only):

English; some Shoshoni

Norm Cavanaugh

Virginia Mae Jones

Duck Valley Reservation (Owyhee, NV)

http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/admin/files/show/583

DVD and VOB format

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