Song of Akil, the Girls' Ceremony

• Item number: 24-1659
• Date: 1906
• Contributors: Hulapok (consultant), Constance Goddard DuBois (researcher)
• Language: Diegueño (dih)
• Availability: Online access by request.
• Description: Museum catalog note: "The songs in series #23 and #24 (24-1658 through 24-1670) correspond to recordings in The American Museum of Natural History (New York). This recording is AMNH #1073." Keeling catalog note: "The Girls' Adolescence Ceremony is described in Waterman (1910:285-293), DuBois (1908a:93-96), and Rust (1906). This particular item is mentioned in DuBois (ibid., p. 124)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, South region, tape 3, side B. Original cylinder 14-1234. 180 speed.
• Collection: The Constance Goddard DuBois collection of Diegueño and Luiseño sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Preferred citation: Song of Akil, the Girls' Ceremony, 24-1659, in "The Constance Goddard DuBois collection of Diegueño and Luiseño sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13936.

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