1 (song number) and 24-875 (associated catalog number)
Accession number:
Acc.228
Description:
A) Brush dance song, first - or heavy song of ceremony; B) Brush dance song, following or ordinary song
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Production place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Maker or artist:
Kepel Umiits
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
July 1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Audio cylinders
Function:
7.2 Sound Communication
Production date:
July 1906
Accession date:
1906
Keeling series number:
6
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 38 seconds
Title:
Brush dance song, first - or heavy song of ceremony (Title)