tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24680729656608535812024-02-20T13:09:21.850-08:00A Tramp Across the Continent: Charles Lummis Discovers AmericaJayne McKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342774256410444231noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468072965660853581.post-33760322826422953252016-05-10T13:09:00.001-07:002016-05-10T13:13:03.405-07:00A thank you to all who have been a part of the adventureI was just thinking that I have neglected to publicly thank all of
the wonderful people who worked with me on this documentary. I'm almost
afraid to name names for fear that I leave anyone out.<br />
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Bert Atkinson,
thank you for your time and for sharing your appreciation of Charles
Lummis with me. I look forward to seeing your documentary one day, and I
hope that you will keep at it. There is no one more devoted to this
subject than you.<br />
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I want to thank Kim Walters, for all of you<span class="text_exposed_show">r
time and sharing your remarkable knowledge of Charles Lummis, the
importance of his legacy and his impact on California and Los Angeles.
Jonathan Spaulding, thank you for the beautiful script that you wrote so
well and for all of our pow-wows and plans. I am very grateful to you
for all of fun we shared working on this!</span><br />
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Thanks to Neal Brown for driving out to the Mojave Desert to film our
promo, which is beautiful. Beth Spiegel, thank you for editing our
footage and holding my hand. Pablo Castel de Oro, your re-enactment of
Lummis tramping across the desert was most convincing! And thank you to
our crew, Andrew McKay, Nikki Rose and Cesar Cejudo.I'll never forget
what fun we shared, including the delicious fiesta that followed!<br />
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Melinda Utal-Martinez- you kept me afloat when I thought I couldn't
keep going. You are someone that everyone should have close by when
navigating an ambitious undertaking! Mary Trunk gave me wonderful
filmmaker to filmmaker advice, as did my entire supportive Cinewomen
group.<br />
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Mark Thompson, I revisited our interview at the Southwest
Museum many times for information, thank you. Lisa Posas, thank you for
your help as the project began. Your interest meant so much to me.
Marilyn Van Winkle, thank you for the images that you helped me to
license and for your positive encouragement. Dennis Harbach, thank you
for your interest and offer to help. Lynn Holley, thank you for your
efforts and friendship. I know I'm leaving people out, but today felt
like a good day to say thank you.<br />
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Lastly, I want to mention and
thank Scott Shumaker. I'm so happy to have discovered you, and our lunch
at the Autry was inspiring and fun. I love that you followed the path
of Charles Lummis and shared it so interestingly. Keep at it. You are a
very fine writer! <a href="http://southwesttramp2010.blogspot.com/2010/01/finding-lummis-trail.html">http://southwesttramp2010.blogspot.com/2010/01/finding-lummis-trail.html</a></div>
Jayne McKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342774256410444231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468072965660853581.post-38598814550595466452015-11-04T11:55:00.002-08:002015-11-04T11:55:49.420-08:00Researching Today<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo Courtesy of Autry National Center/Southwest Museum Los Angeles P_8405</span><br /><br />
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I've spent the past week examining many of the astonishing photos in the Lummis archive that we've collected over the past three years. I'm so thankful to the Autry National Center for sharing these files with us to include in the documentary, and so look forward to sharing them with a wide audience~! <br />
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Today I was looking at a book written by Bradley B. Williams, entitled <b>Charles F. Lummis: Crusader With A Camera</b>. I love the title. Here is a passage from the book that I enjoyed, because it made me imagine what it must have been like to meet such a colorful character as Charlie. Enjoy.<br />
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<i> In 1889 Mr and Mrs Clay Needham were traveling on the newly completed
Santa Fe railroad on their way west when just outside Albuquerque the
conductor asked if they would mind sharing their Pullman with another
man. The conductor assured the Needham's that the gentleman would not
only be an entertaining companion, but was also an authority on the
Southwest. In a moment the porter arrived with some baggage, followed by
a rather small man dressed in a faded corduroy suit and cowboy hat, a
.44 calibre revolver strapped to his belt. ‘My name is Lummis’, the
little man said, extending his right hand, his left hanging lifeless at
his side, ‘and I live in Los Angeles’. Mrs Needham stared incredulously
at the corduroy cowboy. ‘Not C. F. Lummis, the author of “"Quito's
Nugget"”!’ she said, glancing knowingly at her husband and then at the
visitor. ‘Yes’, came the reply. ‘I wrote that tale’.</i>Jayne McKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342774256410444231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468072965660853581.post-89072982643340820932015-04-22T13:17:00.000-07:002015-04-22T13:21:08.507-07:00Lummis and the Founding of the Southwest Museum by Kim Walters<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> Photograph of the construction of the Caracol Tower, Southwest Museum circa 1913 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">We are so fortunate to have Kim Walters as our film's Advisor and knowledgeable member of our creative engine.</span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">
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</style>She recently shared with us this great article that she wrote about the founding of the Southwest Museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">CHARLES F. LUMMIS AND
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Southwest Museum founded in 1907 is a product of the
period in the United States when museums, educational institutions and academic
fields of study were being created to acquire archaeological and ethnological
material, knowledge of Southwestern and Native America and other cultures throughout
the world, and it is an excellent example of this type of institution which
focused on acquiring knowledge through systematic study and education
dissemination programming. Contextually it relates to the realization of the
importance to study archaeology throughout the United States and, specifically
in California and the Southwestern United States. Further the distinguished
work of various professionals associated with the Southwest Museum is important
to the development in the academic fields archaeology and ethnology and study
of American and Southwestern United States cultures, and museums in the United
States with education programs related specifically to Southwestern and Native
American material. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the United States during the mid to late nineteenth
century the majority of museums which collected archaeological and ethnological
materials relating to Native Americans were established. Many of these new
institutions were natural history museums. The academic disciplines of
anthropology and archaeology were beginning in the United States. In
mid-nineteenth century Europe, anthropology as a discipline grew out of natural
history, as the study of human beings. <span lang="EN">The study of language, culture, physiology, and artifacts of European
colonies was more or less equivalent to studying the flora and fauna of those
places. </span>Anthropology as a professional discipline in the United States
was established in the early 1900s with the first Ph.D. program at Columbia
University under Franz Boas. This is the cultural and social context in which
Charles Lummis founded the Southwest Museum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The founder of the Southwest Museum, Charles F.
Lummis, had many colleagues from these eastern institutions and was concerned
about material leaving the Southwest and what this meant to future generations.
He transformed his vision into a viable institution with the Museum's
incorporation in 1907. His life long friendship with Adolph Bandelier exposed
Lummis to many cultures in the Americas. Lummis’ experience with Bandelier in
Peru and Bolivia on an archaeological expedition in 1893 influenced his ideas
about archaeology. Lummis also had a close friendship with Frank Hamilton
Cushing whose work and collecting for the Smithsonian Institution, the British
Museum and a national Museum in Germany further helped to form Lummis’ vision
for establishing a museum in the Southwest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Lummis became the editor of the <i>Land of
Sunshine</i> magazine in 1895, in his earliest issue he wrote his editorial
comments about establishing a museum dedicated to vast and varied interests in
Southern California. Lummis wanted the museum’s mission to include a range of
scientific and aesthetic interests that would highlight the seven counties in
Southern California. The collection and study of flora, fauna, ethnology and
archaeology were to be paramount to this new institution. In the next three
issues he wrote articles dedicated to important private collections of
Palmer-Campbell and Yates that focused on materials relating to Southern
California. His idea for a museum took tangible form in 1903 with the founding
of the Southwest Society, the western branch of the Archaeological Institute of
America (AIA). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Francis W. Kelsey, general secretary of the
Archaeological Institute of America, wanted to expand the influence of the
Institute beyond the East through local affiliates, he reached out to fellow
Harvard graduates for support. Kelsey was trying to get more people to focus on
United States archaeology through local affiliates support of the parent
organization by way of dues and programs. Within two years of its founding the
Southwest Society had more members then the other 21 branches of the AIA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once Lummis agreed to establish the Southwest
Society, he began to pursue his idea of a museum. Within the year he began to
solicit collections and to raise money in order to purchase collections. One of
the first was the Palmer-Campbell Collections of Southern California
Archaeology and Baskets. He also hired Frank M. Palmer as curator to maintain
his collections. In keeping "archaeology alive" Lummis began to
record California Spanish folk songs. Early in 1906 Lummis and the Executive
Committee of the Southwest Society began to look for land in order to his idea
of a “great museum” come to fruition. The group secured 38 acres of land in
Highland Park in its current location in the spring of 1907. The Southwest
Museum became a reality on December 31, 1907 when it received its letters of
incorporation from the State of California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lummis was of the opinion the Eastern museums and the
national museums of Germany, England and Spain were carrying out expeditions to
amass archaeological materials from the southwestern United States, that he
felt belonged in the Southwest. At the time Lummis wrote it was time “to save something
for Our children.” Once the Southwest Society began collecting artifacts (1905),
a museum exhibition space was established in the Pacific Electric building in
downtown Los Angeles. It was moved in 1908 to the Hamburger Building where it
was housed until the Southwest Museum building opened in 1914.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lummis’ interests also lay in conducting systematic
archaeological surveys in the Southwest as an important means of developing
museum collections in order to save them for research. The first project sponsored
by the Society was conducted by Frank M. Palmer in 1905 in Redondo Beach,
California. During this time Lummis battled with the Department of Interior to
be able to carry on archaeological field work in Arizona on Indian
Reservations. He finally succeeded and was granted a permit to work on federal
land with the provision that the Society report findings to the Bureau of
American Ethnology. While Lummis was working on this, he and Edgar L. Hewett
were instrumental in getting the 1906 Antiquities Act passed, with the hopes of
stalling the excavations of sites in the Southwest. Lummis and the Southwest
Society funded the early excavations of the pueblo of Puye in New Mexico by
Edgar L. Hewett with the idea that Lummis would get exhibit quality objects that
were eventually be featured in the museum’s Hamburger Building space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He also wanted to establish other museums or research
centers throughout the Southwest to promote learning and scientific
advancements. Lummis was in contact with the corporate headquarters of the
Archaeological Institute of America about this idea, while they were in the
process of establishing the School of American Research. He tried to get them
to bring it to Los Angeles, but they thought it was better in Santa Fe because
the staff would be in the region where they were conducting research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unlike many of his contemporaries who founded
museums, such as George Gustav Heye, Lummis was not wealthy. He did not have a
personal systematic collection and was not necessarily careful about recording
provenance of objects. Rather, he acquired mementos and souvenirs that had
meaning for him because of their age, or their associations with people and
events. Other contemporaries of Lummis' such as Heye, Sheldon Jackson, Rudolf
F. Haffenreffer, Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Mary Cabbot Wheelwright were
amassing Native American material for their personal interests. They too began
to take interests in establishing museums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">George Heye was able to use his personal wealth and
compulsive behavior to collect any type of material culture he wanted. Heye
also was more interested in the "stuff" than in the provenance. He
funded expeditions to gather material which he split with the American Museum
of Natural History and then later with the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Always having the first pick of the materials discovered, Heye amassed a large
enough collection that he decided to establish his own museum in New York City,
the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in 1916. Heye continued to
purchase collections, especially immediately following the Stock Market crash.
This collection is now the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian
Institution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Southwest Museum according to Lummis' early
vision as written in 1895 was at first a general museum that represented
material culture, the flora and fauna of Southern California. Although his 1907
article indicates that the museum is to focus on the cultures of the Southwest
which includes, California, Arizona and New Mexico. When J. A. B. Scherer took
over as director in 1926 the Museum's collection began to be more focused on
Native Americans. Scherer argued that there were other museums in the Los
Angeles area collection the natural history specimens, so he wanted the Museum
to refocus back to Lummis’ original vision. “The Modern American museum is
first of all an educational institution. It supplements our general educational
system at two points: sharing honors with the university in increasing
knowledge through scientific research, and assisting ‘the grades’ by bringing
large numbers of pupils into direct contact with typical and inspiring examples
of nature or art, scientifically exhibited and sympathetically interpreted.”
The staff looked at the Museum's collection and began to exchange the flora and
fauna with other local institutions such as The Los Angeles Museum of Art,
History and Science (now the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County)
Beginning in 1932, during the tenure of well known anthropologist Frederick
Webb Hodge as the Museum’s director, the focus on Native American culture was
established. A sizable percentage of the present Southwest Museum collections
were amassed under Hodge's leadership.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Southwest Museum collections relate to Native Americans
from Alaska to Terra del Fuego. The Museum garnered its reputation through its
publication series and the systematic archaeological surveys and excavations
its staff conducted from the mid-1920s through to the early 1960s. The staff
worked in Arizona, Mexico, Nevada and California. The Museum research library
includes manuscript, photographs and sound recordings collections. Many of the
items in the manuscript collections relate to the development of archaeology
and anthropology in the United States. Today collections of the Museum are
utilized by national and international researchers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With the founding the Southwest Society and later to the
Southwest Museum, Lummis intended to bring a cultural institution to Los
Angeles, to make Los Angeles the center of art and culture in California , and
to establish ties with fledging national museums, primarily located in the
East. In his writings he makes reference to New York, Boston and Chicago as eastern
art and cultural centers that Los Angeles should strive to emulate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beginning in 1926 with a now more focused institutional
vision on anthropology and Native American cultures, the Southwest Museum’s new
director James A. B. Scherer was responsible for hiring professional staff,
such as Charles Amsden, Monroe Amsden, Harold Gladwin, and Mark Raymond
Harrington. The research efforts and the publication of the findings of these
distinguished archaeologists, anthropologists and other professionals were
pivotal in the establishment of the Southwest Museum’s reputation as an
important repository of Native American material. Scherer also started the <i>Masterkey, </i>the Southwest Museum
membership magazine.<i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hinsley, Curtis, 1981 <b>Savages and Scientists: The
Smithsonian Institution and the Development of American Anthropology,
1846-1910.</b> Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hinsley, Curtis, 1994 <b>The Smithsonian and the American
Indian: Making a Moral Anthropology in Victorian America.</b> Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution Press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jacknis, Ira, 2006 “A New Thing? The NMAI in Historical and
Institutional Perspective.” In <b>American Indian Quarterly</b>, vol. 30 no.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wilson, Thomas H. and Cheri Faulkenstien-Doyle, 1999 “Charles
Fletcher Lummis and the Origins of the Southwest Museum.” In Shepard Krech, and
Barbara A. Hail, eds. <b>Collecting Native America: 1870-1960.</b> Washington,
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lummis, Charles F. 1895. “The California Liar.” <b>Land of Sunshine</b> February vol. II
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lummis, Charles F., 1895 “The Palmer Collection.” <b>Land of
Sunshine</b> March vol. II no. 4 pp. 68-69.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lummis, Charles F., 1895 “The Campbell Collection of
Baskets.” <b>Land of Sunshine</b> April vol. II no. 5 pp. 85.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lummis, Charles F. 1906 “the Southwest Society ,
Archaeological Institute of America”, March vol. xxiv, no. 3 p. 238.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lummis, Charles F., 1907 “Southwest Museum” <b>Out West Magazine</b>, May vol. xxvi. no. 5
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Across the Continent.</b> Los Angeles: Southwest Museum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Morley, Sylvanus G., 1910. “Southhouse, Puye” <b>Sixth Bulletin</b>, The Southwest Society.
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American Character: the Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the
Rediscovery of the Southwest.</b> New York: Arcade Publishing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Jayne McKay, Jonathan Spaulding, Neal Brown, filming a Tramp re-enactment- Mojave Desert, 2014</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm
so grateful for the support and encouragement I get from the film
making community. Especially the documentary club, we wacky ones who
passionately pursue our topics, knowing that we have months, maybe years
of research and fundraising and clearances ahead of us. But we
persevere, because we get crazy. We get devoted. It's like a calling,
and it's really, really hard to walk away from a calling. Especially, I
find, when that calling is coming from Charles Lummis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">If
you know anything about Lummis, you know that he was a zealot. He
worked round the clock, slept little, wrote copious letters, manuscripts
and editorials. He hosted exciting parties and made countless
introductions, mentoring talented friends and building their confidence
and their fame. He had a tenacity that I envy. I wish I had his stamina
most days!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I've had plenty of distractions,
including the need for actual income over the past year. But ole Charlie
Lummis just won't go away! My co-conspirators, Jonathan Spaulding and
Kim Walters, are patiently at the ready for the green light that's
entirely up to me at this point. I'm the Director, and all of the
planning and writing and gathering of information and images has been
progressing well. The hold up is the fund-raising. It turns out that
launching an Indie-go-go campaign isn't as simple as it sounds. At
least, not if you want a very good chance of reaching your goal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We
have a wonderful fiscal sponsor, From The Heart Productions. Founder,
Carole Dean, is the most knowledgeable person I've ever met when it
comes to creating a campaign that can exceed it's goal. She gave me many
assignments, which I am developing carefully. I've learned my lesson
about posting target dates online...so none today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just
rest assured that we haven't abandoned the project, we are quietly
completing the behind the scenes work and will let you know when we
launch the campaign. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I hope that some of you will be
attending the 10th Annual Lummis Day Celebrations. It's great fun, an
opportunity to tour El Alisal and see all of the treasures within- and
so much more. There's incredible poetry, local musicians take to the
stages over at Heritage Square. It's a fun family day, and a chance to
catch up with me if you'd like. Please come say hello!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.lummisday.org/mission/">http://www.lummisday.org/mission/ </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jayne McKay</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Producer/Director</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A Tramp Across The Continent:</span><br />
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Portrait of Rosendo Uruchurtu taken at El Alisal, Highland Park, June 5, 1904. Photo by Charles F. Lummis. Braun Research Library Collection, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; P.33391B<br />
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I recently found a wonderful article from 2009, written by
Kim Walters and Michael Khanchalian, in the Autry’s Convergence magazine. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Keeping Archaeology Alive- The race against
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Lummis, founder of the Southwest Museum, dedicated much of
his life to preserving cultures that he felt were vanishing. He also believed
that a large part of the culture of the Hispanic people of the Southwest would
be forgotten if not recorded. The music, he felt, was as important as the
visual records that he photographed during his travels.</div>
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In 1904, the newly founded Southwest Society began recording
Californio folksongs on Edison recorder and wax cylinders. In a passage from
his 1923 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spanish Songs of Old California </i>songbook
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Personally, I feel
that we who today inherit California are under a filial obligation to save
whatever we may of the incomparable Romance, which has made the name California
a word to conjure with for 400 years. I feel that we cannot decently dodge a
certain trusteeship to save the Old Missions from ruin and the Old Songs from
oblivion. And I am convinced that from a purely selfish standpoint, our musical
repertory is in crying need of enrichment-more by heartfelt musicians that by
tailor-made ones, more from folksong than from potboilers. For 38 years I have
been collecting the old, old songs of the Southwest; beginning long before the
phonograph but utilizing that in later years. I have thus recorded more than
450 unpublished Spanish Songs (and know many more in my “Attic”). It was barely
in time, the very people who taught them to me have mostly forgotten them, or
dies and few of their children know them. But it is a sin and a folly to let
each song perish. We need them now!</i></div>
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The singers that Lummis hired for his Hispanic music
recordings were mostly from families in Los Angeles. The recordings included
Serenades associated with rancho life and nursery songs from the Mission schools.
Almost all of the recordings were done at El Alisal, Lummis’ home in Highland
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In addition to Hispanic music, the collection includes
several hundred Native American songs from 23 different tribes. The wax
cylinder collection contains more than 900 recordings, including about 450
Spanish songs and more than 100 Isletan songs. The entire Lummis archive held
by the Braun Research Library includes correspondence, sheet music, song
workbooks and photographs of the singers.</div>
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I’m hoping that we will be able to include some of these
exciting recordings in the documentary. Through the tireless efforts of many, including Dr.
Michael Khanchalian and his team, there are now over 450 cylinder that have
been digitized. Lummis would be so pleased!</div>
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Charles Lummis is an American classic: blustery, a little insecure, but ready for anything and willing to work hard to realize his dreams. His tramp across America is the perfect example. In some ways, it <span id="goog_1804606776"></span><span id="goog_1804606777"></span>was less of a crazy notion in the 1880s than it is today. Trains, planes and automobiles were yet to make a trip across the continent a routine event.Transcontinental trains did not start running until the 1870s. Before that, getting across the continent involved arduous stage coach routes, or a slow, bumpy slog by wagon or horse. Some people walked, of course, but not many did it for fun!<br />
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Lummis owed some of his inspiration to the great naturalists, like Alexander von Humboldt and John Muir who logged long journeys of discovery through the Americas. Lummis was more interested in people. What he discovered on his tramp across America was eye-opening for him. It was an America he had never experienced back in New England. It changed his life. Our new tramp promises to open a few eyes as well. Who knows what we will find. <br />
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Jonathan SpauldingJayne McKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342774256410444231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468072965660853581.post-11055743231291587852014-05-13T12:09:00.000-07:002014-11-28T17:19:32.895-08:00A feature-length documentary now in Pre-Production in Los Angeles<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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he would walk from his home in Ohio to Los Angeles, where a job at the Los
Angeles Times was waiting. He began his 3,507 mile walk along the
railroad tracks, but eventually veered off of his intended path, encountering blizzards, bandits, mad dogs and mountain lions. Over the course of 143 days, Charles
Lummis' adventure took him to remote places where he was exposed to vastly
different cultures than anything he’d ever experienced in his life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Young
Lummis was forever changed from his Tramp, and in his lifetime he
wrote over 30 books, took thousands of photographs, founded the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and became a powerful advocate for the Native-American and Hispanic peoples he would never have met,
had he stayed home in the mid-west. He often called upon his friend and former Harvard classmate Teddy Roosevelt to further his causes, and he lived a vividly colorful and historically vibrant life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Producers Jayne McKay and Jonathan Spaulding are currently penning the script for this exciting tale of Charlie's adventures, as well as planning an ambitious new Tramp Across the Continent in Spring 2015.We are working on the details and will keep you posted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">We hope that you will consider joining us-this is going to be quite an experience!</span></div>
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