Girls' Puberty Song, Starting Song

• Item identifier: 24-1680
• Date: 1909
• Contributors: Juan Dolores (consultant); Thomas T. Waterman (researcher)
• Language: Tohono O'odham
• Description: Keeling catalog note: "'Girls' puberty songs, sung for four nights. The final word, mulho, is to be noticed, as it is always the final word of songs which are sung in the evenings' (anonymous note on musuem reference cards). For translation see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11; Notebook 92, p. 16)." Original cylinder 14-1255. 150 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-1680 by request.
• Collection: The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Girls' Puberty Song, Starting Song, 24-1680, 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/14593.

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