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Myth of how fire was first obtained

  • Item identifier: 24-2104
  • Date: Jul 1913
  • Contributors: William Fuller (consultant); Edward W. Gifford (researcher)
  • Language: Central Sierra Miwok (csm)
  • Description: Museum (14- Catalogue) note: "[See] Gifford's original notes, pp. 47-49." Keeling catalog note: "See translation entitled 'The Theft of Fire' in Gifford (1917a:332-333). For another version see 24-2107 and related songs on 24-2126 and 24-2127." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 1, side B. Original cylinders 14-1736 and 14-1737. 150 speed.
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2104 by request.
  • Collection: The E.W. Gifford collection of American Indian sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: Myth of how fire was first obtained, 24-2104, in "The E.W. Gifford collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11958.

Digital assets in this Item (available by request):
14-1737.txt (4485 bytes)
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14-1737_filtered.wav (13112638 bytes)
14-1736.1.txt (10212 bytes)
14-1736.1.wav (17622766 bytes)
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