Maine/Maritimes Folklore Collection/CP 180
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of student papers. The early items are largely miscellaneous gatherings of individual items: jokes, tall tales, ghost stories, traditional medicine, popular beliefs and superstitions, legends, local character yarns, etc. and only occasionally include tape recordings. Later accessions reflect the trend in the field of folklore to emphasize context over items gathered for their own sake. Thus they are more apt to consist of life histories with an emphasis on life styles and occupations and to include tape recordings.
Dates
- 1957-1975
Conditions Governing Access
For digitized items free from access restrictions, we are working to upload this material (pdfs, mp3s, jpgs) for public access, but it is an ongoing project. If you don’t find what you are looking for here, contact Special Collections (um.library.spc@maine.edu).
Conditions Governing Use
Rights assessment remains the responsibility of the researcher. Some items in this collection do not have release forms and other have specific use/access restrictions.
Extent
629 items
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The first 437 of these accessions are arranged in alphabetical order; subsequent additions are arranged chronologically.
Existence and Location of Originals
Located at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: AFC 2012/047 https://lccn.loc.gov/2013655211.
Materials Specific Details
Audio files are the primary source material. Transcriptions are the transcriber's best effort to convert audio to text, but should be considered secondary to the audio.
Collection Note
This collection consists of student papers written for CP 180, FO 197, FO 002, FO 198, AY 21, FO 179, CP 133 with over 600 series consisting of undergraduate projects, papers and recorded interviews conducted for folklore courses taught by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives at the University of Maine and various other locations in Maine from 1957 to 1975.
- Algonquin Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Beothuk Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Burial sites Subject Source: Local sources
- Curses Subject Source: Afs Ethnographic Thesaurus
- Ethnography Subject Source: Afs Ethnographic Thesaurus
- Folk medicine Subject Source: Afs Ethnographic Thesaurus
- Folklore Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Frye's Leap Subject Source: Local sources
- Gluskap (Legendary character) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Indian Devil Subject Source: Local sources
- Indian treasure Subject Source: Local sources
- Indians of North America Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America -- Battles Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America -- Maine -- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Iroquoian Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Katahdin, Mount (Me.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Malabeam Subject Source: Local sources
- Malecite Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Micmac Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mohawk Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Myths Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Native American and non-Native contact -- Friendly Subject Source: Local sources
- Native American and non-Native contact -- Hostile Subject Source: Local sources
- Norridgewock (Me.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ockett, Molly
- Oral histories Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Pamola Subject Source: Local sources
- Passamaquoddy Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Penobscot Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Place names Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Saco River Curse Subject Source: Local sources
- Sockalexis, Louis, 1871-1913
- Sokoki Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Songs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Students -- Papers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tarrantines Subject Source: Local sources
- Title
- Guide to the Maine/Maritimes Folklore Collection/CP 180
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Amanda Marden
- Date
- April 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English.
Repository Details
Part of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Repository
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono ME 04469-5729 United States
207.581.1686
