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Song of rain shamans

  • Item identifier: 24-2169
  • Date: Oct 1914
  • Contributors: Thomas Williams (consultant); Edward W. Gifford (researcher)
  • Language: Central Sierra Miwok (csm)
  • Description: Keeling catalog note: "Translation in Gifford's 1914 fieldnotes (p. 82). Songs of Central Sierra Miwok rain shamans are described in Gifford (n.d. #1:13-14)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 6, side A. Original cylinder 14-1881a. 115 speed.
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2169 by request.
  • Collection: The E.W. Gifford collection of American Indian sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: Song of rain shamans, 24-2169, 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/12003.

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