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Eskimo songs from Alaska Cover Image CD Music recording CD Music recording

Eskimo songs from Alaska

Stryker, Miriam C., (recordist,, writer of added text.). Hofmann, Charles, 1914-1996 (editor.). Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings. (Added Author). Folkways Records. (Added Author).

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  • Physical Description: sound recording
    sound disc
    1 sound disc (43 min., 50 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Previously released in 1966 as LP analog disc by Folkways Records.
Compact disc.
Original liner notes and photographs by Miriam C. Stryker included as a PDF file on disc.
Formatted Contents Note: Small owl (:54) -- How much will I get for the ivory carving? (3:08) -- Looking for someone who wants to Eskimo dance (4:35) -- Balloon song (2:02) -- Walking from Savoonga to Gambell (0:55) -- Cowboy song (:53) -- Praise, praise God (1:18) -- Helicopter song ; Second helicopter song (5:17) -- Drum song (2:05) -- Like a little girl (2:52) -- Little Indian boy (2:35) -- Indian exhausted (2:04) -- Rise up helicoter, like a bird (1:45) -- Guitar song (2:33) -- Eskimo rock 'n' roll (2:47) -- Little cowboy (2:12) -- Swing your drum (1:43) -- I couldn't wait (2:00) -- Old song (2:12).
Participant or Performer Note: Performed by various local musicians.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded on St. Lawrence Island in the villages of Savoonga, May 7, 1963, and Gambell, Aug. 1961.
Language Note:
Sung in Eskimo.
Subject: Folk music Alaska
Folk songs, Eskimo Alaska
Eskimos Alaska Music

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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