Description:A "good-time song." This song is sung in a funeral ceremony. During the singing of this song, and Eagle (person) points to a Coyote (person) across the fire, and vice versa (from the comments spoken on the tape). This song is sung using unusual mannerisms (aspirations). Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 18, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Song sung when coming out of mourning before they burn the clothes, 24-383.11, in "The Peggy Osmund Molarsky collection of Western Mono sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14682.
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