Chatish Song, It is coming to me
- Item number: 24-929
- Date: 1906 July
- Contributors: Jose Albanas (consultant), Constance Goddard DuBois (researcher)
- Language: Luiseño (lui)
- Availability: Online access by request.
- Description: Keeling catalog note: "Towit, the thick mist that comes before rain, is said to be coming in this song. DuBois states: 'This is a Chungichnish song of plenty. One man will dance while another sings. It may also be sung as an individual song in the Image ceremony' (1908a:112). The Image Ceremony is described there also (ibid., pp. 100-103). 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)' (ibid., 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 14-388. 180 speed.
- Collection: The Constance Goddard DuBois collection of Diegueño and Luiseño sound recordings
- Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Preferred citation: Chatish Song, It is coming to me, 24-929, 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/13967.
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