Item number: 24-2740

Contributors: Catherine Peters (consultant), Derrik N. Lehmer (researcher)

Language: Yurok

Duration: 50 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)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 11, side B. Original cylinder 14-2528a. 150 speed.

Collection: The D.N. Lehmer collection of American Indian sound recordings

Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology