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Wappo dance songs

  • Item identifier: Sawyer.t004.001
  • Date: undated
  • Contributors: Laura Somersal (consultant); Jesse O. Sawyer (researcher)
  • Language: Wappo (wao)
  • Description: Audio recording of Wappo songs. Inferred that singer begins new songs at 1:50, 4:00 ("Grass Game Song" or "Hand Game Song"), 6:10 ("Grass Game Song"; singer comments that a mistake is made and the song is sung again from the beginning), 8:26 ("Love Song"), 10:30 ("Old Time Drinking Song" or "Goofy Song"), 12:50 ("Sweathouse Song"), 14:45 ("Sweathouse Song"), 16:00 ("Love Song"), 17:56 ("Love Song"), 19:40, 21:50, 24:49, 28:14, 30:00 ("Grass Game Song" or "Hand Game Song"). Information in parentheses was given by the speaker as a title or description of the song. These songs appear as individual Items in Collection LA 90.
  • Availability: Online access
  • Extent: 1 cassette tape
  • Catalog history: Sawyer.t004.002 was identical to Sawyer.t004.001 and was deaccessioned.
  • Collection: Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages
  • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  • Suggested citation: Wappo dance songs, Sawyer.t004.001, in "Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1679.

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