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Brush Dance Song

  • Item identifier: 24-1839
  • Date: Oct 1902
  • Contributors: Mrs. McCann (consultant); Pliny Earle Goddard (researcher)
  • Language: Hupa
  • 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 7, side A. Original cylinder 14-1373b. 120 speed.
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-1839 by request.
  • Collection: The Pliny Earle Goddard collection of Pacific Coast Athabaskan sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: Brush Dance Song, 24-1839, 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/14219.

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