Item number: 24-1839

Contributors: Mrs. McCann (consultant), Pliny Earle Goddard (researcher)

Language: Hupa

Duration: 38 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 7, side A. Original cylinder 14-1373b. 120 speed.

Collection: The Pliny Earle Goddard collection of Pacific Coast Athabaskan sound recordings

Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology