Brush Dance Song (heavy song)

• Item identifier: 24-1132
• Date: 1907 spring
• Contributors: Johnny Cooper (consultant); Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher); Weitchpec Frank (recorder)
• Language: Yurok (yur)
• Description: Museum catalog note: "The Brush Dance is a curing ritual traditionally performed for the benefit of a child who is sickly, feverish, or delicate in constitution. Kroeber indicates that this function becomes largely symbolic by 1900 (1925:61)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 4, side B. Original cylinder 14-749. 150 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-1132 by request.
• Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Brush Dance Song (heavy song), 24-1132, 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/12255.

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