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Ouiot Song

  • Item identifier: 24-940
  • Date: Jul 1906
  • Contributors: Juan de Dios (consultant); Constance Goddard DuBois (researcher)
  • Language: Luiseño (lui)
  • Description: Keeling catalog note: "DuBois provides a description of the text, a musical transcription, and information about the performer (1908a:116-117). Musical transcription (by Kretschmer) among Kroeber Papers (Carton 10). This is a song of the Pikmakvuul series, Songs of Death. Such examples as this and the next item (24-941) are sung towards the beginning of the Image Ceremony, while mourners are burning clothes." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, South region, tape 1, side B. Original cylinder 14-399. 180 speed.
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-940 by request.
  • Collection: The Constance Goddard DuBois collection of Diegueño and Luiseño sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: Ouiot Song, 24-940, in "The Constance Goddard DuBois collection of Diegueño and Luiseño sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13978.

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