Clown's song sung before Kuksuyu Dance commences

• Item identifier: 24-2162
• Date: Oct 1914
• Contributors: Thomas Williams (consultant); Edward W. Gifford (researcher)
• Language: Central Sierra Miwok (csm)
• Description: Keeling catalog note: "Translation in Gifford's 1914 fieldnotes (p. 19). Actions of clowns before and during the Kuksuyu Dance are described in Gifford (1955:270)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 4, side B. Original cylinder 14-1839. 150 speed.
• Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2162 by request.
• Collection: The E.W. Gifford collection of American Indian sound recordings
• Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Suggested citation: Clown's song sung before Kuksuyu Dance commences, 24-2162, in "The E.W. Gifford collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11996.

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