Item number: 24-1600

Contributors: Kunalye (performer), Leslie Wilbur (recorder), A.L. Kroeber (researcher)

Language: Mojave

Duration: 1 minute, 53 seconds

Description: Keeling catalog cites Kroeber's (1925:766) description of the Alysa cycle: "Alysa is from the Kamia. The singer rattles, and men and women dance in a circle, an arrangement that is rare in native Mohave dances." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Southeast region, tape 17, side A. Original cylinder 14-1176. 180 speed.

Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings

Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology