A Song for the Xahluigak Dance

• Item identifier: 24-2474
• Date: Jun 1919
• Contributors: Jim Pumpkin (consultant); Edward W. Gifford (researcher)
• Language: Eastern Pomo (peb)
• Description: Keeling catalog note: "This indigenous 'Ghost Ceremony' involved the impersonation of the dead by specially trained and initiated men, and it is distinct from the Ghost Dance that spread to the area in the latter 1800s. It is described in Gifford (1926b:353-354), Halpern (1988), Loeb (1926:338-354), McLendon (1977:24), and McLendon and Lowy (1978:316)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 3, side A. Original cylinder 14-2267. 150 speed.
  Digital files include both 14-2267.1 (original wax cylinder) and 14-2267.2 (wax cylinder copy of the original). The original has overall better sound quality, but due to wax cylinder damage cuts off a segment of the English introduction which is preserved in the copy.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2474 by request.
• Collection: The E.W. Gifford collection of American Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: A Song for the Xahluigak Dance, 24-2474, in "The E.W. Gifford collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12131.

Digital assets in this Item (available by request):
14-2267.1.txt (8094 bytes)
14-2267.1.wav (25788976 bytes)
14-2267.1_filtered.wav (25789052 bytes)
14-2267.2.txt (10907 bytes)
14-2267.2.wav (22752090 bytes)
14-2267.2_filtered.wav (22750046 bytes)