Record details

• Physical Description: 2 audio discs : audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
• Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1981, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Smithsonian Folkways Archival."--container.

Previously issued in 1981 as album of 2 analog discs, Folkways Records: FE 4122.

Program notes available as PDF file on disc 1.

Collected, recorded and annotated by Ida Halpern.

Formatted Contents Note:

Disc 1. Wolf cycle, A, B, C (Mungo Martin) -- Raven (Billy Assu) -- Hagok (Tom Willie) -- Hagok (Billy Assu) -- Mountain goat (Mungo Martin) -- Mountain goat (Tom Willie) -- Hamatsa (Stanley Hunt) -- Hamatsa (Billy Assu) -- Hamatsa (Billy Assu) -- Hamatsa (Mungo Martin) -- Hamatsa (Mungo Martin) -- Hamatsa (Mungo Martin). Disc 2. Bukwas, A, B (Tom Willie) -- Thunderbird (Tom Willie) -- Sea eagle (Mungo Martin) -- Stone body, A, B (Mungo Martin) -- Love song (Billy Assu) -- Potlatch (Billy Assu) -- Potlatch (Billy Assu) -- Whale song (Billy Assu) -- Old potlatch (Mungo Martin) -- Potlatch (Billy Assu) -- Tugwid dance (Billy Assu) -- Nimkish dance (Billy Assu) -- Madem (Tom Willie).

Participant or Performer Note:

Various performers.

Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:

"The songs on these recordings were seleceted from a group of over 500... colletced from 1947-1981"--p. 12 of notes available in PDF format on disc 1.

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Kwakiutl Indians > Music.
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