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Bluebird Song (1925 May)
Item number: 24-2589
Contributors:
Atzide Bigue (consultant),
Derrik N. Lehmer (researcher)
Language: Navajo
Duration: 1 minute, 21 seconds
Description: Museum (14- Catalogue) note: "Sung so softly as to be scarcely audible. Singer was perhaps afraid to sing it aloud, as it is a winter song. One [other] refuses to sing it because it is a winter song." Keeling catalog note: "Additional information relating to these Navajo recordings is in a letter to Richard Keeling from Charlotte Frisbie (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville), in the Accession File (Envelope #400)." Original cylinder 14-2386. 180 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology