Finding Aid to the Navajo Translation of the Marine Corps Hymn MS.878
Holly Rose Larson
Library and Archives at the Autry
2012 December 13
210 South Victory Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91502
rroom@theautry.org
Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Navajo Translation of the Marine Corps Hymn
source:
Hodge, Frederick Webb
Creator:
King, Jimmie K. (Private First Class )
Identifier/Call Number: MS.878
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date: circa 1943
Abstract: This collection includes a typed copy of the Marine Corps Hymn in English. This copy of the Hymn was translated into Navajo
by Private First Class Jimmie K. King and also includes a letter to Frederick Webb Hodge from Philip Johnston, dated 1943
March 1.
Language of Material:
English
, Navajo; Navaho
.
This collection includes a typed copy of the Marine Corps Hymn in English, a copy of the Hymn translated into Navajo by Private
First Class Jimmie K. King and a letter to Frederick Webb Hodge from Philip Johnston, dated 1943 March 1.
The letter is in reply to Hodge's request to print the translation in Southwest Museum's serial publication
The Masterkey. Johnston writes, "A restricted order has recently come from the Commandant stating that all the publicity on the Navajos
must be held down to an absolute minimum...until after the shooting stops, and at that time I am reasonably sure that permission
for its printing will be easily maintained."
The translation was printed in the 1945 September issue of the
The Masterkey.
Navajo Translation of the Marine Corps Hymn, circa 1943, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.878; [folder number] [folder
title][date].
"Marine Corps Hymn in Navaho," published in
The Masterkey, volume 19, number 3, 1945 September, pages 153-155.
Processed by Library staff before 1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 December
13, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
Donated by Frederick Webb Hodge, 1943 March 1.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Military music
Marine Corps Hymn
Typescripts
Marches (Band)
Navajo language -- Texts
United States. Marine Corps -- Songs and music
Navajo Indians
Hodge, Frederick Webb