Song for Curing

• Item identifier: 24-1073
• Date: Sep 1907
• Contributors: Narcisso La Chappa (consultant); Thomas T. Waterman (researcher)
• Language: Kumeyaay (dih)
• Description: Keeling catalog note: "Waterman provides text and translation for this entry, stating that the song was part of a ceremony performed over a dead person and intended to free his spirit from all desire to linger about the corpse (1910:279)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, South region, tape 3, side A. Original cylinder 14-710b. 180 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-1073 by request.
• Collection: The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Song for Curing, 24-1073, in "The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14525.

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