Girls' Puberty Song, from a myth

• Item identifier: 24-1136
• Date: 1907 spring
• Contributors: Stone of Weitchpec (consultant); Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher); Weitchpec Frank (recorder)
• Language: Yurok (yur)
• Description: Keeling catalog note: "There was no public girls' adolescence ceremony among the Yurok. However, menstruation was marked by private rituals and observances, and these are briefly described in Kroeber (1925:45)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 4, side B. Original cylinder 14-753. 150 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-1136 by request.
• Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Girls' Puberty Song, from a myth, 24-1136, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12259.

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