Bad Song, They Thought Themselves Relatives of Ours

• Item identifier: 24-1101
• Date: Sep 1907
• Contributors: Antonio Maces (consultant); Thomas T. Waterman (researcher)
• Language: Kumeyaay (dih)
• Description: Keeling catalog note: "'Bad Songs' are sung in the context of the girls' adolescence ceremony (Waterman 1910:290-293). The text of this song was intended to insult a group from San Diego who had come to participate in a festival without having been invited. The text is transcribed and translated there also (ibid. 291)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, South region, tape 3, side A. Original cylinder 14-728. 160 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-1101 by request.
• Collection: The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Bad Song, They Thought Themselves Relatives of Ours, 24-1101, 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/14553.

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