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Title: Tyler (Guy) Audio Recordings
Dates: 1967-1977
Accession number: 2004.008
Creator:
Tyler, Guy
Collection Size:
1 linear feet
Repository:
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
Palm Springs, California 92262
Abstract: Surrogate audio recordings of Cahuilla songs and language. Originally recorded on reel-to-reel tapes by ethnographer Guy Tyler
between the years 1967-77. Transferred to digital format by the Storyscape Project of the Cultural Conservancy.
Physical location: Stored off site. Advance notice required for access.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Cahuilla
Collection is open for research.
Ownership of the physical collection belongs to the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum. Other rights, including copyright and cultural
rights, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds these
rights and pursue the rights owner(s) or his or her heir for permission to publish or reproduce where the Agua Caliente Cultural
Museum does not hold these rights.
For research purposes only. All copies and reproductions by permission of rights holder[s].
[Identification of item], Tyler (Guy) Audio Recordings, 2004.008, Agua Caliente Cultural Museum.
Donation.
Biography / Administrative History
Guy Tyler was an amateur ethnographer who conducted ethnographic audio recordings of Native Americans primarily in the American
Southwest over a 40 year period. Tyler recorded interviews with Native Cahuilla speakers on reel-to-reel tapes between the
years 1967-77. The original recordings were recorded on Scotch magnetic tape (1/4 - 282- 12), 1200 feet, 1.5 mil polyester,
7" reel and on 7" reel Scotch heavy duty recording tape (175- 1/4 -1200), silicone lubricated, 1.5 mil Tenzar backing, 1/4
in. x 1200 ft. Recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second with monophonic dual tracks and at 7 1/2 inches per second with four tracks.
Tyler died in November 2000. Recordings were transferred to digital format by the Storyscape Project of the Cultural Conservancy.
Scope and Content of Collection
Surrogate audio recordings of Cahuilla songs and language. Originally recorded on reel-to-reel tapes by ethnographer Guy Tyler
between the years 1967-77. Recordings compiled into a series of 15 Compact Discs. Cahuilla language informants include Guadalupe
and Rosenda Lugo, Kenneth Nombre, Magdalena Nombre, Alice Lopez, and Salvador Lopez. Transferred to digital format by the
Storyscape Project of the Cultural Conservancy.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection.
Tyler, Guy
Lugo, Guadalupe
Lugo, Rosenda
Lopez, Alice
Lopez, Salvador
Nombre, Kenneth
Nombre, Magdalena
Seiler, Hansjakob
Lomas, Joe
Siva Saubel, Katherine
Banning
Cahuilla
Cahuilla language
Serrano
Serrano language
Vocabulary