Various Pomoan songs

• Item identifier: 24-131
• Date: Sep 1949
• Contributors: Steve Parrish (consultant); Peter Abraham (researcher)
• Language: Pomoan
• Description: All proceeding tracks performed by Steve Parrish. All tracks were distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 9, side B.
  Tracks:
  (1) 'Hohoke Song'
  (2) 'Loloke Song'
  (3) 'Hoho Song'
  (4) 'Dua ke Song'
  (5) 'Dua ke Song': Same song as track 4 - at lower pitch level.
  (6) 'Batu (Doctoring) Song'
  (7) 'Batu (Doctoring) Song': Begins with a short spoken segment.
  (8) 'Yoki (?) Song or Dance Song from the South': Song-type is indistinctly pronounced in spoken cue but probably corresponds to the Yoke Dance as described in Barrett (1917:436).
  (9) 'Yoki (?) Song': Same song as in track 8 - sung at a lower pitch level. Song-type is indistinctly pronounced in spoken cue but probably corresponds to the Yoke Dance as described in Barrett (1917:436).
  (10) 'Yoki Song': Spoken identification of genre more clear for this item.
  (11) 'Stopping Song or Sitting-Down Song for the Yoki Dance'
  (12) 'Bighead Dance Song': Spoken cues identify this as a recent song of its type, and the dance is best described in Meighan and Riddell (1972).
  (13) 'Bighead Song': Another recent Bighead song (women only on dancing).
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-131 by request.
• Collection: The Peter Abraham collection of Pomo and Patwin sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Various Pomoan songs, 24-131, in "The Peter Abraham collection of Pomo and Patwin sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/33884.

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