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Akwaka ("Deer") Song (1908)

Item number: 24-1579
Contributors: Kunalye (performer), Leslie Wilbur (recorder), A.L. Kroeber (researcher)
Language: Mojave
Duration: 2 minutes, 0 seconds
Description: Keeling catalog note: "Kroeber states that the Akwaka ('Deer') cycle is sung with a gourd rattle accompaniment and is comparatively short (that is, short enough to be completed within one night). He also provides a plot summary and a translation of the text of the last song in the series (1925:762-763)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Southeast region, tape 16, side B. Original cylinder 14-1155. 180 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology