Bow Song (for warding off bullets or arrows of enemies)

• Item number: 24-2096
• Date: 1912 August
• Contributors: Ishi (consultant), Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher)
• Language: Yahi
• Availability: Online access by request.
• Description: Museum catalog note: "Words: ai'kut ea'ya ma'n'ina' (ku,not; dyehtea, shoot; man'i, bow)." Keeling catalog note: "For transcriptions of music and text see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11)." Original cylinder 14-1727. 150 speed.
• Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Preferred citation: Bow Song (for warding off bullets or arrows of enemies), 24-2096, 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/13106.

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