Wax cylinder recording
- Museum number:
- 14-753
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21140000753
- Alternate number:
- 24-1136 (associated catalog number)
- Description:
- Girls' Puberty Song, from a myth
- Collection place:
- near Weitchpec, Klamath River, Humboldt County
- Verbatim coll. place:
- vicinity of Weitchpec
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Maker or artist:
- Stone
- 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:
- There was no public girls' adolescence ceremony among the Yurok. However, menstruation was marked by private rituals and observances, and these are briefly described in Kroeber (1925:45).
- Department:
- Audio recordings
- Dimensions:
- duration 155 seconds
- Title:
- Girls' Puberty Song, from a myth (Title)
- Comment:
- Original
- Legacy documentation:
-