Maoxpir Song

  • Item identifier: 24-547
  • Date: Jul 1902
  • Contributors: Weitchpec Susie (consultant); Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher)
  • Language: Yurok (yur)
  • Description: Keeling catalog note: "For musical transcription see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11). Kroeber's notebook reveals that this was Susie's rendition of a man's sweathouse song, rather than one that a woman might actually use (Keeling)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 1, side A. Original cylinder 14-28. 150 speed.
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-547 by request.
  • Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: Maoxpir Song, 24-547, 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/12626.

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