Item number: 24-2475

Contributors: Jim Pumpkin (consultant), Edward W. Gifford (researcher)

Language: Eastern Pomo

Duration: 2 minutes, 7 seconds

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 14-2268. 150 speed.

Collection: The E.W. Gifford collection of American Indian sound recordings

Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology