14-1504 (attributed PAHMA number) and 24-1949 (associated catalog number)
Accession number:
Acc.400B
Description:
Hesi Ceremony. War Dance song, Howilileya muhi. Researchers Please note: Barrets notes on this recording are contained in a 5 page transcript (see accession file #400). Comments in the 14 catalogue seem to have been drawn from this document, which contains more information than provided here. "Sung at the time of the Bighead (Tuya) Dance and accompanied by the beating of the singer's cane upon floor in time to the music. This should be sung faster for dancing. Song has no words." (notes from 14-catalogue)
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
San Francisco
Culture or time period:
Wintu and Wintun of Cortina Valley
Maker or artist:
Salvador
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
September 1909
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Audio cylinders
Function:
7.2 Sound Communication
Production date:
September 1909
Accession date:
1909
Keeling series number:
46
Department:
Audio recordings
Dimensions:
duration 126 seconds
Title:
Hesi Ceremony. War Dance song, Howilileya muhi (Title)
Comment:
Original. Researchers Please note: Barrets notes on this recording are contained in a 5 page transcript (see accession file #400). Comments in the 14 catalogue seem to have been drawn from this document, which contains more information than provided here. "Sung at the time of the Bighead (Tuya) Dance and accompanied by the beating of the singer's cane upon floor in time to the music. This should be sung faster for dancing. Song has no words." (notes from 14-catalogue) Original