Brush Dance Song

• Item number: 24-1830
• Date: 1902 October
• Contributors: James Anderson (consultant), Pliny Earle Goddard (researcher)
• Language: Hupa
• Availability: Online access by request.
• Description: Museum (14- Catalogue) note: "A so-called 'light' song." 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 7, side A. Original cylinder 14-1365. 120 speed.
• Collection: The Pliny Earle Goddard collection of Pacific Coast Athabaskan sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Preferred citation: Brush Dance Song, 24-1830, in "The Pliny Earle Goddard collection of Pacific Coast Athabaskan sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14210.

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