Wax cylinder recording

Museum number:

14-749

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21140000749

Alternate number:

24-1132 (associated catalog number)

Description:

Brush Dance Song (heavy song)

Collection place:

near Weitchpec, Klamath River, Humboldt County

Verbatim coll. place:

vicinity of Weitchpec

Culture or time period:

Yurok

Maker or artist:

Johnny Cooper

Collector:

Weitchpec Frank

Collection date:

Spring 1907

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Audio cylinders

Function:

7.2 Sound Communication

Production date:

Spring 1907

Keeling series number:

11

Context of use:

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)

Department:

Audio recordings

Dimensions:

duration 98 seconds

Title:

Brush Dance "heavy" song (Title)

Comment:

Original

Legacy documentation: