Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Flint Song (man flint)

Item number: 24-2054

Date: Sep 1911

Contributors: Ishi (consultant), Thomas Talbot Waterman (researcher)

Language: Yahi

Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2054 by request.

Description: Museum catalog note: "Words: etiten pantkomeya tinti i pant kin howeyena." Keeling catalog note: "24-2054a (1'54") contains original cylinder 14-1688a, and 24-2054b (1'52") contains original cylinder 14-1695 (apparently the same song). Musical transcriptions are found among the Kroeber Papers (Carton 11) and in Nettl (1965:473). Notes in 14- Catalogue identify this as a 'man flint' song and as a 'doctor's song for curing'." Original cylinders 14-1688a and 14-1695. 150 speed.

Collection: The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings

Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Preferred citation: Flint Song (man flint), 24-2054, in "The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14652.

Digital assets in this Item (not available for download):
14-1695.txt (7463 bytes)
14-1695.wav (15313444 bytes)
14-1695_filtered.wav (15313444 bytes)
14-1688.txt (8660 bytes)
14-1688a.wav (13680044 bytes)
14-1688a_filtered.wav (13680044 bytes)

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