| Harris & Ewing Piegan Indian, Mountain Chief, listening to recording with ethnologist Frances Densmore 1916, 9 February Photograph Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Digital ID npcc.20061 LL/84990 Part of a series of pictures depicting Frances Densmore at the Smithsonian Institution in 1916 during a recording session with Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief for the Bureau of American Ethnology.
National Geographic caption: "This 1916 image of Frances Densmore and Blackfoot leader Mountain Chief listening to a cylinder recording has become a symbol of the early songcatcher era."
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