Chatish Song
- Item number: 24-925
- Date: 1906 July
- Contributors: Jose Albanas (consultant), Constance Goddard DuBois (researcher)
- Language: Luiseño (lui)
- Availability: Online access by request.
- Description: Keeling catalog note: "Original cylinder was in bad condition and not transferred to tape during 1975 project. The Chatish songs (series) are songs of wizards or hechiceros: secret, individual songs either passed down in the family or composed by the singer. The text of this song begins with the words (in translation), 'From my feet, from my hands, I drew forth (objects)' (DuBois 1908a:110-111). It refers to the custom of shaman's extracting things (acorns, rabbits, little snakes, or frogs, for example) from various parts of thier bodies during dances to demonstrate thier power (ibid.)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, South region, tape 1, side A. Original cylinder 14-384.
- Collection: The Constance Goddard DuBois collection of Diegueño and Luiseño sound recordings
- Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Preferred citation: Chatish Song, 24-925, 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/13963.
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