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Dance song

  • Item identifier: 24-395.1
  • Date: Jun 1980
  • Contributors: Frank LaPena (consultant); Karen Beckwith (researcher); Bill Rathbun (researcher)
  • Languages: [unspecified]
  • Description: This Bear Dance song is a male vocal solo with accompaniment of a bird-bone whistle and elderberry clapper. The singer is Frank LaPena. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 21, side B and Northeast region, tape 7, side A.
  • Availability: Digital content is not available. Please write to pahma-mediapermissions@berkeley.edu. Please specify as much information as possible about the recordings you are interested in, including the Item number (24-395.1).
  • Collection: The Karen Beckwith and Bill Rathbun collection of Maidu, Northern Paiute, and Shoshone sound recordings
  • Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Status: deaccessioned
  • Suggested citation: Dance song, 24-395.1, in "The Karen Beckwith and Bill Rathbun collection of Maidu, Northern Paiute, and Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13901.