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Medicine for easy dilivery of child; from Wohpekemeu

  • Item identifier: 24-861
  • Date: Jul 1906
  • Contributors: Mrs. Billy Werk (consultant); Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher)
  • Language: Yurok (yur)
  • Description: Keeling catalog note: "A transcription and translation of the text among Kroeber Papers (Carton 6; Notebook 74, p. 59, and Notebook 67, p. 27). A summar of the text is given in Kroeber (1976:474), and several other versions are found there also, the most complete being that spoken by Mack of Weitspus (ibid., pp. 281-283)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 2, side B. Original cylinder 14-330. 150 speed.
  • Availability: Online access to Item number 24-861 by request.
  • Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Suggested citation: Medicine for easy dilivery of child; from Wohpekemeu, 24-861, 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/13033.

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