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Deerskin Dance Song

  • Item identifier: 24-1896
  • Date: 1909
  • Contributors: Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher); Weitchpec Frank (recorder); Billy Werk (performer)
  • Language: Yurok (yur)
  • Description: Keeling catalog note: "The performer is probably Billy Werk of Weitchpec, whose biography is given in Kroeber (1976:15-17)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 9, side A. Original cylinder 14-1466. 150 speed.
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-1896 by request.
  • Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: Deerskin Dance Song, 24-1896, 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/12640.

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