Wax cylinder recording

Museum number:
14-523
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21140000523
Alternate number:
1 (song number) and 24-999 (associated catalog number)
Description:
a) Third Brush Dance Song sung by the medicine woman as she goes about the brush Dance House carrying a basket and dragging a pestle. b) Fourth Brush Dance Song sung to lifting of the medicine woman's pestle on a stick
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Maker or artist:
Juanita
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
June 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Audio cylinders
Function:
7.2 Sound Communication
Production date:
June 1907
Keeling series number:
9
Department:
Audio recordings
Dimensions:
duration 27 seconds
Title:
Third and Fourth Brush Dance Songs (Title)
Comment:
Original
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Wax cylinder recording, accession number 14-523, described as a) Third Brush Dance Song sung by the medicine woman as she goes about the brush Dance House carrying a basket and dragging a pestle. b) Fourth Brush Dance Song sung to lifting of the medicine woman's pestle on a stick Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.

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