[Miscellaneous Hupa texts III]
- Item number: LA256.023
- Date: 02 May 2003
- Relations to this item: LA 256.038 referenced by this Item; LA 256.024 references this Item
- Contributor: Verdena Parker (speaker, creator)
- Language: Hupa
- Availability: Online access
- Catalog history: Previously named 023_A.wav and 023_B.wav
- Extent: 1 cassette
- Description: 2 WAV files. Third in a series of ten cassettes containing untranslated Hupa texts. Contents are described more fully by Mrs. Parker in LA256.038, as follows. "The big journey to the homeland. Medicine man's teachings. How he became the Cross the Sea Old Man. What will happen when he escapes. How the Cross the Sea Old Man got married and his children. The first death of humans. Second marriage to twins. Creation of elk and dogs. Newborn son and daughter. Wives turn into bugs. The great white sweat house leaves the Earth. Trying to restore the goodness. The capture of the Old Man by the devil. Angels leave the Earth. When all badness is gone. Medicine men of our time. Their practice. Going to the land made for our people. How a medicine man should live to practice his medicine. The Jump Dance and law about it from heaven. About animal people. Grasshopper and ants. Animal people think they need a leader. Skunk story. Creation of animals and mole. Cross the Sea Old Man named the animals and live [sic] with them."
- Collection: The Verdena Parker Collection of Hupa Sound Recordings and Films
- Repository: Berkeley Language Center
- Preferred citation: [Miscellaneous Hupa texts III], LA 256.023, 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/X2QV3JT6.
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