Item number: 24-810

Contributors: Domingo (consultant), A.L. Kroeber (researcher)

Language: Yurok

Duration: 54 seconds

Description: Museum catalog note: "The Brush Dance is a curing ritual traditionally performed for the benefit of a child who is sickly, feverish, or delicate in constitution. Kroeber indicates that this function becomes largely symbolic by 1900 (1925:61)." Keeling catalog note: "For musical transcription (by Kretschmer) and brief scalar analysis see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 1, side B. Original cylinder 14-279. 150 speed.

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

Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology