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Chuhuecha myth

  • Item identifier: 24-2028
  • Date: Dec 1910
  • Contributors: Achora Hanyava (consultant); Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher)
  • Language: Mojave (mov)
  • Description: Museum (14- Catalogue) note: "[This account begins] at a point in the story where the younger brother leaves Svimelyehweke and goes south to obtain a wife and continues to the conclusion of the story." 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 cylinders 14-1574 through 14-1581. 140 speed.
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2028 by request.
  • Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: Chuhuecha myth, 24-2028, 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/12966.

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