Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: stories; linguistic data; songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Alfred L. Kroeber. The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings, PHM 39, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11039.
Description: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 4, side B. Original cylinder 14-749. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Brush Dance Song (heavy song), 24-1132, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12255.
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Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Gambling Song, 24-1134, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12257.
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Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Love Song, 24-1133, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12256.
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Description:Museum (14- Catalogue) note: "For women, also for money." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 5, side A. Original cylinder 14-763. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Love Song, 24-1146, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12269.
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Description:Museum (14- Catalogue) note: "Sung by him when about to fight, thus ensuring that he would not be hit." Keeling catalog note: "The chickenhawk is also the subject of a Karok song used for luck in fighting or for killing enemies of deer, and the latter song is described in Roberts (1926: se KK-15)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 5, side A. Original cylinder 14-762. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Song of the black chickenhawk who formerly lived at Shumig, 24-1145, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12268.
Description:Museum (14- Catalogue) note: "This song is from Bluff Creek Jim. This song (24-1141) is also sung to ward off sickness from the house." Keeling catalog note: "A similar formula of the neighboring Karoks, spoken to protect one after he had committed some grave wrongdoing, is translated in Gifford (n.d.#3)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 5, side A. Original cylinder 14-758. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Song sung by murderer to enable him to escape when pursued by relatives of the dead, 24-1141, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12264.
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Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Song sung by person wishing to meet and succeed in killing an enemy, 24-1149, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12272.
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Description:Museum (14- Catalogue) notes: "This song is from Bluff Creek Jim." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 5, side A. Original cylinder 14-757. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Song sung if a fox cries at one, 24-1140, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12263.
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Description:Museum (14- Catalogue) note: "This song is from an old man at the village of Nahtsku." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 5, side A. Original cylinder 14-765. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Song to ward off approach of those seeking revenge for slain relatives, 24-1148, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12271.
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Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: War Dance Song, 24-1144, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12267.
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