Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Brush Dance Song

Item number: 24-2736

Date: May 1926

Contributors: Aileen Figueroa (consultant), Derrik N. Lehmer (researcher)

Language: Yurok (yur)

Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2736 by request.

Description: Museum (14- Catalogue) note: "If you love your wife you can go and sit by her." Keeling catalog note: "This is evidently a translation of the Yurok text, and its character is typical of light songs in the Brush Dance." 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 11, side B. Original cylinder 14-2524. 180 speed.

Collection: The D.N. Lehmer collection of American Indian sound recordings

Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Preferred citation: Brush Dance Song, 24-2736, in "The D.N. Lehmer collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13772.

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