24-942 (associated catalog number) and 33 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.219
Description:
Song of Peekmakvul
Donor:
Constance Goddard DuBois
Collection place:
Southwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
Lucario Cuevish, Luiseño
Culture or time period:
Luiseño
Maker or artist:
Juan de Dios
Collector:
Constance Goddard DuBois
Collection date:
July 1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Audio cylinders
Function:
7.2 Sound Communication
Accession date:
1906
Keeling series number:
7
Context of use:
This is a song of the Pikmakvuul series, Songs of Death. Such examples as this (24-941 and 24-940) are sung while they burn clothes, toward the beginning of the Image Ceremony. "DuBois states that this was used in the Image Ceremony (1908: 114) and refers the reader to corresponding passages in the creation myths (ibid. 128-48). The Image Ceremony is described in DuBois (ibid. 100-103), Kroeber (1925: 675) and Sparkman (1908: 227)" [from 24-934]. The text for 24-941 relates Ouiot's counsel to his people when he was dying (DuBois 1908: 117). Here Ouiot enumerates the "months" in each of which he expects to die (DuBois 1908: 117).