Song of Pikmakvuul

• Item identifier: 24-953
• Date: Jul 1906
• Contributors: Martasal Tabac (consultant); Constance Goddard DuBois (researcher)
• Language: Luiseño (lui)
• Description: Keeling catalog note: "This is a song of the Pikmakvuul series, Songs of Death. Such examples as this ... are sung towards the beginning of the Image Ceremony, while mourners are burning clothes. 'The women dance while this is sung. The song tells how they prepared the ground to burn the body of Ouiout...Then they went aroud three times and laid the body in a pile and started the fire' (DuBois 1908a:118)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, South region, tape 1, side B. Original cylinder 14-412. 180 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-953 by request.
• Collection: The Constance Goddard DuBois collection of Diegueño and Luiseño sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Song of Pikmakvuul, 24-953, 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/13991.

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