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[Vocabulary and phrases, discussion of storytelling, contemporary Native life and changes]

  • Item identifier: LA256.032
  • Date: 2003 to 2006
  • Contributor: Verdena Parker (speaker, creator)
  • Language: Hupa
  • Description: 2 WAV files. Side A: miscellaneous Hupa vocabulary and phrases, including words related to trees, with verbs of cutting, insects, other animals, and plants. Side B: miscellaneous Hupa vocabulary and phrases, including words related to water and animals; discussion in English about animals found in old stories (lions, giant birds), with some related stories told in English and discussion of traditional storytelling (28:23); discussion of contemporary Native American life and changes to traditional skills like basket weaving (34:59); discussion of "wha:ne," sometimes rendered as 'only,' here glossed as 'all the time' or 'all they do is X' (45:47).
  • Availability: Online access
  • Extent: 1 cassette
  • Catalog history: Previously named 032_A.wav and 032_B.wav
  • Collection: The Verdena Parker Collection of Hupa Sound Recordings and Films
  • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  • Suggested citation: [Vocabulary and phrases, discussion of storytelling, contemporary Native life and changes], LA 256.032, in "The Verdena Parker Collection of Hupa Sound Recordings and Films", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2K35RZD.

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