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Yelak [Yellaka ("Goose")] Song: Nyahaimkwiik [Nihaim-kwidhik], first song

  • Item identifier: 24-667
  • Date: Nov 1905
  • Contributors: Aspa-sakam (consultant); Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher)
  • Language: Mojave (mov)
  • Description: Keeling catalog note: "Yellaka ("Goose") is a shamanistic song described in Kroeber (1925:766-768). The textual content of this series (24-667 through 24-756) is summarized there in a detailed synopsis. This is 'Version 1' (Kroeber 1925:767-768). Another series (24-1337 through 24-1352) is identified as 'Version 2' and also described in Kroeber (ibid., pp. 768-769). For a musical transcription (by Kretschmer) see Kroeber Papers (Carton 10). Notes on the text also among Kroeber Papers (Carton 4; notebook 62, p. 66). On 24-667, the same song is performed twice as duplicated from cylinder originals 14-139 and 14-140." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Southeast region, tape 4, side B. Original cylinders 14-139 and 14-140. 150 speed.
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-667 by request.
  • Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: Yelak [Yellaka ("Goose")] Song: Nyahaimkwiik [Nihaim-kwidhik], first song, 24-667, 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/12780.

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