Peyote Song

  • Item identifier: 24-2938
  • Date: Oct 1938
  • Contributors: Seymour Arnot (consultant); Don James (consultant); Roy James (consultant); Omer C. Stewart (researcher)
  • Language: Washo (was)
  • Description: Keeling catalog note: "This is one of the very few wax cylinder recordings that preserves evidence of ensemble singing. The style is a moderately coordinated unison: typical of the Great Basin tribes but generally distinct from the style of California Indian singing." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 15, side A. Original cylinder 14-2662. 130 speed.
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2938 by request.
  • Collection: The O.C. Stewart collection of American Indian sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: Peyote Song, 24-2938, in "The O.C. Stewart collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11121.

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