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White Deerskin Dance Song

  • Item identifier: 24-1819
  • Date: Oct 1902
  • Contributors: James Anderson (consultant); Pliny Earle Goddard (researcher)
  • Language: Hupa
  • Description: Keeling catalog note: "The title above was the original entry in the 14- Catalogue, but this was altered to read 'Boat Dance Song (miltailal).' The following notes are added in the same handwriting: 'with it they kick on the water.' and '2 parts or versions.' The Boat Dance is one phase of the White Deerskin Dance as practiced among the Hupa Indians." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 6, side B. Original cylinder 14-1356. 150 speed.
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-1819 by request.
  • Collection: The Pliny Earle Goddard collection of Pacific Coast Athabaskan sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: White Deerskin Dance Song, 24-1819, in "The Pliny Earle Goddard collection of Pacific Coast Athabaskan sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14199.

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