Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

16 Wiyot texts

Item number: LA23.025

Date: 16 Aug 1956

Contributors: Della Prince (consultant), Stuart Fletcher (researcher), Karl V. Teeter (researcher)

Language: Wiyot (wiy)

Availability: Online access

Catalog history: Digital asset LA23.025.001.wav was formerly segment number 032_1. Digital asset LA23.025.002.wav was formerly segment number 033_1.

Description: Recordings of 16 Wiyot texts, all of which are published in Teeter & Nichols, “Wiyot Handbook II” (1993), ISBN: 0-921064-11-X. LA23.025.001 includes 8 texts: "Indian Dresses" (0:10-1:54; pp. 141-142 in Teeter & Nichols), "Pubescent Girl" (1:55-3:48; pp. 158-159 in Teeter & Nichols), "Abalone Necklace" (3:55-5:42; pp. 143-144 in Teeter & Nichols), "Long Headdress" (5:44-6:33; pp. 147 in Teeter & Nichols), "Thick Headdress" (6:35-8:47; pp. 148-150 in Teeter & Nichols), "Doctor Dress" (8:54-10:13; pp. 151-152 in Teeter & Nichols), and "Indian Marriage" (11:27-14:22; pp. 160-162 in Teeter & Nichols). LA23.025.002 includes another 8 texts: "Curing Surf Fish" (0:00-1:04; pp. 120-121 in Teeter & Nichols), "Curing Eels" (1:13-3:46; pp. 117-119 in Teeter & Nichols), "Sand Cricket" (3:49-5:33; pp. 16-17 in Teeter & Nichols), "Salmon Heads" (5:38-7:27; pp. 114-115 in Teeter & Nichols), "Hooking Eels II" (7:30-9:10; pp. 100-101 in Teeter & Nichols), "Mediation" (9:15-10:57; pp. 163-164 in Teeter & Nichols), "Baskets II" (10:59-14:03; pp. 138-140 in Teeter & Nichols), and "Dandy Bill III" (14:10-15:33; pp. 77-78 in Teeter & Nichols). No English glosses.

Collection: The Stuart Fletcher and Karl V. Teeter collection of Wiyot sound recordings

Repository: Berkeley Language Center

Preferred citation: 16 Wiyot texts, LA 23.025, in "The Stuart Fletcher and Karl V. Teeter collection of Wiyot sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16476.

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