Kern County Indian Song

• Item number: 24-2883
• Date: circa 1927-1928
• Contributors: Ed Lewis (consultant), Julian H. Steward (researcher)
• Languages: [unknown]
• Availability: Online access by request.
• Description: Keeling catalog note: "Steward explains the text as follows, 'A bear cub, whose mother has been killed, walks over the trail he has traveled with her, singing softly' (1933: 284). Steward provides a musical transcription and translates the words of the song as 'Where is my mother now?'". Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 14, side A. Original cylinder 14-2617. 180 speed.
• Collection: The Julian H. Steward collection of Western Numic sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Preferred citation: Kern County Indian Song, 24-2883, in "The Julian H. Steward collection of Western Numic sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11684.

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