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Eagle Song, Song of the Elder-Bark Skirt (1907 September)

Item number: 24-1060
Contributors: Narcisso La Chappa (consultant), Thomas Talbot Waterman (researcher)
Language: Diegueño
Duration: 34 seconds
Description: Keeling catalog note: "The Tatahuila Dance (Luiseño: morahesh) is described in Waterman (1910:308, 310, and 315). The dance occurs as part of the Feather ceremony and the Eagle Ceremony, both of which are involved with ceremonial mourning. The Eagle ceremony is described in Waterman (1910: 314-20)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, South region, tape 2, side B. Original cylinder 14-705a. 180 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology