Audio recording

Museum number:

24-809.NW#1.B.dup.1

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm2124809@2enw@231@2eb@2edup@2e1

Accession number:

Acc.228

Description:

Brush Dance Song

Donor:

Alfred L. Kroeber

Collection place:

Northwestern California

Culture or time period:

Yurok

Maker or artist:

Domingo of Weitchpec

Collection date:

July 1906-August 1909

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Audio reel tapes

Function:

7.2 Sound Communication

Accession date:

1906

Keeling series number:

6

Department:

Audio recordings

Dimensions:

duration 70 seconds and recording speed 150 recording speed

Title:

Yurok (Culture Groups on Tape)

Comment:

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)

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