Song for the Round Dance

• Item identifier: 24-2384
• Date: Aug 1926
• Contributors: Singing Jack (consultant); Edward W. Gifford (researcher)
• Language: Western Mono
• Description: Keeling catalog quotes Gifford (1932a:46): "The nigaba dance was a 'round dance' held on four consecutive nights, in which 40 or 50 participants sang while dancing to the right around a fire. Men and women were mixed regardless of moiety, and each dancer held his neighbor's hand. This was an annual dance held in various places." Museum catalog note: "Probably this is similar to the Round Dance of the Northern Paiute." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 13, side A. Original cylinder 14-2164a. 180 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2384 by request.
• Collection: The E.W. Gifford collection of American Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Song for the Round Dance, 24-2384, 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/12116.

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