Speech occurring in the Navaict Ceremony

• Item identifier: 24-1693
• Date: 1909
• Contributors: Juan Dolores (consultant); Thomas T. Waterman (researcher)
• Language: Tohono O'odham
• Description: Keeling catalog note: "'Drinking navaict. Drink made from cactus-syrup (tall column cactus). Each family brings one olla of drink. Then it is put in four big baskets. Before the baskets start around, a man makes a speech' (anonymous note on musuem reference card). For translation see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11; Notebook 92, p. 20)." Original cylinder 14-1263. 150 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-1693 by request.
• Collection: The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Speech occurring in the Navaict Ceremony, 24-1693, 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/14606.

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