Miwok Mourning Song

• Item identifier: 24-2750
• Date: Sep 1927
• Contributors: Chris Brown (consultant); Derrik N. Lehmer (researcher)
• Language: Sierra Miwok
• Description: Keeling catalog note: "Funeral and mourning customs of the Central Sierra Miwok are dicussed in Gifford (1955:310-316). For description of customs surrounding death among the Southern Miwok see Gifford (n.d. #2:4-9)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 13, side A. Original cylinder 14-2537a. 165 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2750 by request.
• Collection: The D.N. Lehmer collection of American Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Miwok Mourning Song, 24-2750, in "The D.N. Lehmer collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13786.

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