Barnum’s American Museum

Event Information

Venue(s):
Barnum's American Museum [JAN 1842-JUL 1865]

Price: $.30; .15 children under ten

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 January 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Dec 1864, All Day

Program Details



K: Ethnicity; Native American Music

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  O-Ke-Na-Wa-Ka Tribe of Indians ;  William B. [comic singer] Harrison
2)
"Ring of fate; or, Fire! Aire! Earth! And Water! "
3)
War dances, unidentified
aka O-Ke-Na-Wa-Kas; Okenawakas
4)
Comic songs

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 26 December 1864, 4.

Listed in “Amusements This Evening.”

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 26 December 1864, 5.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 December 1864, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 December 1864, 7.

W.R. Harrison in comic songs; O-Ke-Na-Wa-Kas Tribe of Indians in their costumes, war dances.

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 31 December 1864, 303.
6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 31 December 1864, 7.

Extemporaneous songs by W.B. Harrison.