Wax cylinder recording

Museum number:

14-2386

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21140002386

Alternate number:

24-2589 (associated catalog number)

Accession number:

Acc.400R

Description:

Bluebird Song

Donor:

Derrick Norman Lehmer

Collection place:

Arizona

Culture or time period:

Navajo

Maker or artist:

Adzide Bigue

Collector:

Derrick Norman Lehmer

Collection date:

May 1925

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Audio cylinders

Function:

7.2 Sound Communication

Production date:

May 1925

Accession date:

1925

Keeling series number:

81

Context of use:

Sung so softly as to be scarcely audible. Singer was perhaps afraid to sing it aloud as it is a winter song. One other Navaho refused to sing it because it is a winter song.

Department:

Audio recordings

Dimensions:

duration 81 seconds

Title:

Bluebird Song (Title)

Comment:

Original

Legacy documentation: