Omaha Indian Buffalo Dance

Omaha Indian Buffalo Dance

Library of Congress (Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcomaha.0720)

• Omaha Indian Buffalo Dance

  
  

  Sound recording from an Omaha Indian Buffalo Dance event provided by the Library of Congress (Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcomaha.0720)

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  Library of Congress

  Audio Transcript

  Sounds of rhythmic drumming and wailing chanting.

Spectrogram of Omaha Indian Buffalo Dance. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right. Note the difference between the fast, low-pitched drumbeats and the clear, long, higher-pitched notes of the human voices

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