Healing songs of the American Indians/

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957.

Alexander Street Press.

Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)

Language:

North American Indian (Other)

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Medicine.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Folkways Records, 1965.

Contents:

Chippewa: The approach of the thunderbirds. Going around the world. Sitting with the turtle.

Sioux: A buffalo said to me. Song of the bear. Behold the dawn.

Yuman: Second song when treating the sick. Third song when treating the sick.

Northern Ute: Healing song of little green man. Healing song of the eagle spirit.

Papago: Sandy loam fields. Out of the mountains. Song to a little yellow wasp. Song of the dawn.

Makah: A path on the mountain peaks.

Menominee: Song of the juggler. Healing song from the spirit women. I am rewarding you. The heavens help you.

Notes:

"Selected from the Smithsonian-Densmore Collection, Archive of Folklore, Library of Congress."

Program notes by C. Hofmann and F. Densmore (7 p. ill.) inserted in original container.

"Recorded on location by Frances Densmore [1908-29]".

OCLC:

689536681

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.