Brush Dance Song (heavy song)

• Item number: 24-1903
• Date: 1909
• Contributors: Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher), Captain Spott (performer), Weitchpec Frank (recorder)
• Language: Yurok (yur)
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-1903 by request.
• Description: Museum catalog (14- Catalogue) title: "Heavy song presumably of Brush Dance Song." 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 9, side B. Original cylinder 14-1473. 150 speed.
• Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Preferred citation: Brush Dance Song (heavy song), 24-1903, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12647.

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