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Myth of how fire was first obtained

  • Item identifier: 24-2107
  • Date: Jul 1913
  • Contributors: Thomas Williams (consultant); Edward W. Gifford (researcher)
  • Language: Central Sierra Miwok (csm)
  • Description: Museum (14- Catalogue) note: "[See] Gifford's original notes, pp. 100-106." Keeling catalog note: "Translation in Gifford entitled 'The Theft of Fire' (1917a:284-86). For another version see 24-2104." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 1, side B. Original cylinders 14-1746 through 14-1748. 120 speed.
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2107 by request.
  • Collection: The E.W. Gifford collection of American Indian sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: Myth of how fire was first obtained, 24-2107, in "The E.W. Gifford collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11961.

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