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Ground Squirrel Song

  • Item identifier: 24-581
  • Date: Feb 1903
  • Contributors: Salt Lake Pete (consultant); Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher)
  • Language: Yawdanchi
  • Description: Keeling catalog note: "For a musical transcription (by Hatch) see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Valley region, tape 1, side B. Original cylinder 14-53d. 130 speed.
    The Keeling catalogue lists four songs (corresponding to 24-578 "Pleiades Song", 14-579 "Mountain Sheep Song", 24-580 "Water Song (dreamed by woman)", 24-581 "Ground Squirrel Song") as being on the same cylinder (14-53); however, the digitized recording of the cylinder contains only three tracks. Because of this, all four entries contain the entire 14-53 recording.
  • Relations to this item: 24-578, 24-579, and 24-580 relate to this Item
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-581 by request.
  • Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: Ground Squirrel Song, 24-581, 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/12682.

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