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Description: Keeling catalog cites Kroeber's (1925:764) description of the Ohwera cycle: "Ohwera has the eagle as its hero and revolves at least in part about the New York Mountains and the Chemehuevi country northwest of the Mohave. The singer strikes two bundles of stems. A sort of dance can accompany the singing. Six men and six women kneel on one leg, then stamp the forward foot slightly to each beat of the music." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Southeast region, tape 16, side B. Original cylinder 14-1166. 180 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Ohwera Song, 24-1590, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12536
We acknowledge with respect the Ohlone people on whose traditional, ancestral, and unceded land we work and whose historical relationships with that land continue to this day.