Description:The spoken comments on the tape reveal that Elizabeth is the leader of the Eagles in singing and that Rosalie ____ is the leader of the Coyote side. Dance movements are described at some length, and there is further description of the funeral ceremonies: family stepping over body before interment, face washing, Coyote buries Eagle and vice-versa. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 18, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Song sung around the fire when coming out of mourning, 24-384.2, 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/14692.
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