Chuhuecha Song, Song of Kaokamatea when horsefly bites baby

• Item identifier: 24-2026
• Date: Dec 1910
• Contributors: Achora Hanyava (consultant); Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher)
• Language: Mojave (mov)
• Description: Keeling catalog note: "Singing of Chuhuecha songs is accompanied by beating a basket with a bundle of rods. The heroes of the myth are two brothers called Hanyuve. Hanyuve is also an insect, perhaps the cricket, that is said to sing Chuhuecha songs as it chirps." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Southeast region, tape 18, side B. Original cylinder 14-1572. 140 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2026 by request.
• Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Chuhuecha Song, Song of Kaokamatea when horsefly bites baby, 24-2026, 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/12964.

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