Graphophone used by Robert E. Peary
19th United States audio / visual equipment
ca. 189019th
13 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 10 in. (35 x 42 x 25 cm)
Object Type:
audio / visual equipment
Creation Places:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
wood on metal
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of William R. Bryant, Class of 1973
Accession Number:
2000.4.1
A graphophone, or cylinder phonograph, recorded and played back sounds on wax cylinders. Robert Peary used this wood and metal graphophone to make the earliest recordings of stories and songs of the Inughuit in the 1890s. Sadly, the wax cylinder recordings are lost.
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This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Northward Over the Great Ice The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum , 4/17/2008 - 9/5/2010
- A Resounding Beat: Music in the Inuit World , 3/26/2019 - 12/31/2020
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