Song for the Ghost Dance (Sheriig) of 1872

• Item identifier: 24-2526
• Date: Aug 1923
• Contributors: Molly Brainerd (consultant); Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher)
• Language: Wiyot (wiy)
• Description: Museum (14- Catalogue) note: "Text may be in Wiyot or in Mattole, since the Ghost Dance Movement is said to have reached the Wiyot from the Mattole." Museum catalog note: "The Ghost Dance is a messianic movement which orginated among the Nevada Paiute, was based upon a prophetic vision of the end of the world and return of the (Indian) dead, along with the destruction of white people." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 10, side A. Original cylinder 14-2323. 130 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2526 by request.
• Collection: The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Song for the Ghost Dance (Sheriig) of 1872, 24-2526, 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/13214.

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