Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

[Stories of Cougar and Bobcat, cannibals, girls and Buzzard, Coyote]

Item number: LA256.011

Date: 2003 to 2006

Relations to this item: LA 256.010 has this Item as alternative version

Contributor: Verdena Parker (speaker, creator)

Language: Hupa

Availability: Online access

Catalog history: Previously named 011_A.wav and 011_B.wav

Extent: 1 cassette

Description: 2 WAV files. Side A (stories in Hupa and English): story about Cougar & Bobcat; story about a man who encounters two cannibals. Side B (stories in Hupa and English): continuation of story about the man and cannibals; story about girls finding husbands and their encounter with Buzzard (same as LA256.010); story about Coyote going swimming in fog, then losing and recovering his eyeball; discussion of songs in Indian stories; story about Coyote drinking water from a tree.

Collection: The Verdena Parker Collection of Hupa Sound Recordings and Films

Repository: Berkeley Language Center

Preferred citation: [Stories of Cougar and Bobcat, cannibals, girls and Buzzard, Coyote], LA 256.011, in "The Verdena Parker Collection of Hupa Sound Recordings and Films", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2542KWX.

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