Brush Dance Song

• Item identifier: 24-1887
• Date: Aug 1909
• Contributors: Domingo (consultant); Thomas T. Waterman (researcher)
• Language: Yurok (yur)
• Description: Museum (14- Catalogue) note: "A 'light' song." 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 9, side A. Original cylinder 14-1459. 160 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-1887 by request.
• Collection: The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Brush Dance Song, 24-1887, in "The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14628.

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14-1459.txt (7628 bytes)