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  1. Song for bringing fir branches down to Kepel fish-dam (1906 July)
    Item number:  24-873 [description]
    Contributors:  A.L. Kroeber (researcher), Umiits of Kepel (consultant)
    Language:  Yurok
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    Description: Keeling catalog note: "Notes among Kroeber Papers (Carton 6; Notebook 67, p. 28)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 2, side B. Original cylinder 14-342. 150 speed.
    Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
    Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  2. Kepel fish-dam song before poles of dam are joined in middle (1906 July)
    Item number:  24-874 [description]
    Contributors:  A.L. Kroeber (researcher), Umiits of Kepel (consultant)
    Language:  Yurok
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    Description: Keeling catalog note: "Notes among Kroeber Papers (Carton 6; Notebook 67, p. 28)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 2, side B. Original cylinder 14-343. 150 speed.
    Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
    Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  3. Brush Dance song (heavy song) (1906 July)
    Item number:  24-875 [description]
    Contributors:  A.L. Kroeber (researcher), Umiits of Kepel (consultant)
    Language:  Yurok
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    Description: Museum catalog note: "The Brush Dance is a curing ritual traditionally performed for the benefit of a child who is sickly, feverish, or delicate in constitution. Kroeber indicates that this function becomes largely symbolic by 1900 (1925:61)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 2, side B. Original cylinder 14-344a. 150 speed.
    Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
    Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  4. Brush Dance song (light song) (1906 July)
    Item number:  24-876 [description]
    Contributors:  A.L. Kroeber (researcher), Umiits of Kepel (consultant)
    Language:  Yurok
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    Description: Museum catalog note: "The Brush Dance is a curing ritual traditionally performed for the benefit of a child who is sickly, feverish, or delicate in constitution. Kroeber indicates that this function becomes largely symbolic by 1900 (1925:61)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 2, side B. Original cylinder 14-344b. 150 speed.
    Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
    Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  5. Song used in gathering sweathouse sticks (wanik verai) (1906 July)
    Item number:  24-877 [description]
    Contributors:  A.L. Kroeber (researcher), Umiits of Kepel (consultant)
    Language:  Yurok
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    Description: Keeling catalog note (from Kroeber Papers, notebook 67, p. 29): "Not used in going up mountain but cry and sing when cut branches and carry them down in sweathouse when they burn wood. That is done because they like to get money. This song is his own, made by himself. When he felt old (=dead) people, he began to sing that way." Museum catalog note: "Note how this song imitates (or nearly consists of) crying (RK)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 2, side B. Original cylinder 14-345. 150 speed.
    Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
    Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
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