Three Brush Dance Songs

• Item identifier: 24-989
• Date: Jun 1907
• Contributors: Domingo (consultant); Billy Werk (consultant); Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher)
• Language: Yurok (yur)
• 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: "Nearly all the wax cylinder recordings in this collection feature only a single performer, and very few illlustrate the typical styles of vocal accompaniment as these few items do. The first and third songs on 24-989 seem to be heavy songs and the third is announced as such by Kroeber. The second one seems to be a light song ... For musical transcription of the third song see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 4, side A. Original cylinders 14-487 through 14-489. 170 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-989 by request.
• Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Three Brush Dance Songs, 24-989, 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/13304.

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