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Lida Girado tells stories about making rain with moss and Coyote and the pitch doll

  • Item identifier: LA65.107
  • Date: 28 Jun 1982
  • Contributors: Lida Girado (consultant); Sheldon Klein (researcher)
  • Language: Kawaiisu (xaw)
  • Place: Kelso, CA
  • Description: Klein reads some stories in English (probably Maurice Zigmond's "Kawaiisu mythology: an oral tradition of south-central California") to help jog her memory. Out of respect for cultural tradition, please be aware that this recording may include text material that was not to be told during summer months.
  • Availability: Online access
  • Catalog history: Digital asset LA65.107.001.wav was formerly segment number 087_1.
  • Collection: The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings
  • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  • Suggested citation: Lida Girado tells stories about making rain with moss and Coyote and the pitch doll, LA 65.107, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22085.

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