Brush Dance Song

• Item identifier: 24-885
• Date: Jul 1906
• Contributors: Hawley of Meta (consultant); Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher)
• Language: Yurok (yur)
• Description: Museum catalog note: "The Brush Dance is a curing ritual traditionally performed for the benefit of a child who is sickly, feverish, or delicate in constitution. Kroeber indicates that this function becomes largely symbolic by 1900 (1925:61)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 3, side A. Original cylinder 14-353. 150 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-885 by request.
• Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Brush Dance Song, 24-885, 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/13057.

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