Yurok song recordings at Berkeley
Song recordings are mostly not online. Those that are online require a password.
Abbreviations
H xxx = Hearst Museum catalog # 24-xxx (as per Keeling, A guide
to early field recordings ... [1991])
K = A. L. Kroeber field notebooks (BANC MSS C-B 925, microfilm copy
FILM 2049)
W = T. T. Waterman Yurok field notebooks (University Archives CU 23-1,
item 99)
I. Ceremonial songs
A. Brush Dance (with words or possibly with words)
1. Domingo of Weitchpec (1906, 1909): nine Brush Dance songs
(H 809-813 [musical transcr. K], 1885-87, 1893)
2. Umits of Kepel (1906): Brush Dance song (H 876)
3. Hawley of Meta (1906): two Brush Dance songs (H 884-85)
4. Domingo of Weitchpec and Billy Werk (1907): three Brush Dance
songs, including one light song (H
989 [musical transcr. K])
5. Juanita (1907): five Brush Dance songs (H
996, H 997-1000;
cf. K 77.32)
6. Fanny (1907): Brush Dance song (H 1024)
7. Shiwich (1909): two Brush Dance songs (H
1877, H 1878)
8. Henry of Weitchpec (1909): two Brush Dance songs (H 1901-1902)
9. Captain Spott (1909): Brush Dance song (H 1904)
10. Aileen Pilgrim (1926): four Brush Dance songs (H 2733-36)
11. Blind Bill (1927): Brush Dance song (H 2726)
12. Robert Natt (1927): Brush Dance song (H 2730)
13. Catherine Peters (1927): two Brush Dance songs (H 2740-41)
14. Robert Spott (1927): Brush Dance song (H 2732)
15. Florence Shaughnessy (1951): two Brush Dance songs (LA
16 Song 1f, LA
16 Song 1g)
B. Kick Dance (with words or possibly with words)
1. Dave Durban (1906): six Kick Dance songs (H 817-19, 855-57
[musical transcr. K]; cf. K 66.92-94)
2. Nancy of Weitchpec (1906): Kick Dance song (H 832; cf. K
67.22))
3. Hawley of Meta (1906): two Kick Dance songs (H 886-87)
4. Ann of Espeu (1909): three Kick Dance songs (H 1871-73)
5. Shiwich (1909): two Kick Dance songs (H
1879, H 1881)
6. Henry and Nancy of Weitchpec (1909): Kick Dance song (H 1899)
7. Captain Spott (1909): Kick Dance song (H 1905)
8. Florence Shaughnessy (1951): Kick Dance song (LA
16 Song 1b)
9. Robert Spott (1951): Fanny Flounder's Kick Dance
song
(LA 16 Song 2a)
C. War Dance (with words or possibly with words)
1. Captain Spott (1906): two songs (H 890-91)
2. Dave Durban (1906): three songs (H 814-16 [musical transcr.
K])
3. Jackson Ames (1906): one song (H 829 [transcr. K 67.22])
4. Henry of Weitchpec (1906): two songs (H 830-31)
5. Johnny Cooper (1907): one song (H
1144)
6. Unidentified performer (1909): one song (H 1895)
7. Louis Oscar (1927): one song (H 2729)
8. Robert Spott (1927): one song (H 2731)
9. Florence Shaughnessy (1951): one song (LA
16 Song 1a)
10. Mabel Brantner (1951): one song (LA
16 Song 2c)
D. Songs pertaining to the Kepel Fish Dam
1. Mary Marshall (1906): Medicine Song relating to the Kepel
Fish Dam (H 800)
2. Mary Marshall (1906): Women's Song relating to the Kepel
Fish Dam (H 801)
3. Amits of Kepel (1906): Two songs relating to the Kepel Fish
Dam (H 873-74 [transcr. K 67.28])
E. White Deerksin Dance
1. Domingo of Weitchpec (1907): Deerskin Dance Song (H 984 [musical transcr. K])
II. Individual songs
F. Gambling
1. Domingo of Weitchpec (1906): four songs (H 808, 820-22 [musical
transcr. K])
2. Hawley of Meta (1906): two songs (H 878-79)
3. Henry of Weitchpec (1906, 1909): two songs (H 825, 1898)
4. Domingo of Weitchpec (1907): one song (H
983 [musical transcr.
K])
5. Domingo of Weitchpec and Billy Werk (1907): one song (H
992)
6. Johnny Cooper (1907): one song (H 1134)
7. Captain Spott (1907): one song (H
1139)
8. Blind Bill (1927): one song (H 2727)
G. Love
1. Nancy of Weitchpec (1906): Two love songs (H 826,
833)
2. Nancy of Weitchpec (1906): Woman's love song (H 909 [musical
transcr. K])
3. Fanny (1907): Love Song (H 1025)
4. Johnny Cooper (1907): Two love songs (H 1133, H
1146)
5. Sarah Frank (1907): Love Song (H
1137)
6. Blind Bill (1927): Love Song (H 2722)
7. Fanny Flounder (1927): "Song of the Lonely Lover"
(H 2737)
8. Florence Shaughnessy (1951): Love Song (LA
16 Song 1e)
9. Mrs. Hill (1951): "Love Song of the abivinia
vine"
(LA
16 Song 2d)
H. Safety in travel
1. Captain Spott (1906): Medicine songs against rough water
(H 892 [transcr. K 67.46], 893 [transcr. K 67.47])
2. Captain Spott (1906): Medicine song against rough water from
seagull (H 895 [transcr. K 67.48, musical transcr. K])
3. Captain Spott (1906): Medicine songs against rough water
from 11 brothers (H 896-908 [transcr. K 67.49-50; cf. K 72.34])
I. Hunting and fishing
1. Murek Jack (1902): Deer song (K 43.47)
2. Hawley of Meta (1906): Deer medicine song (H 888 [transcr.
K 67.37])
3. Blind Bill (1927): Hunting song (H 2723)
4. Florence Shaughnessy (1951): Deer hunting song
(LA
16 Song 1c)
J. Miscellaneous
1. Captain Spott (1901): Two short songs (K 9.42)
2. Captain Spott (1901): Song of doe to fawn (K 10.49)
3. Weitchpec Susie (1902): Song to obtain money (H 546 [transcr.
K 42.48, musical transcr. K])
4. Domingo of Weitchpec (1906): Wohpekumeu's Flute Song (H 827)
5. Domingo of Weitchpec (1906): Coyote Song (H 828; cf. K 67.25)
6. Dave Durban (1906): Sweathouse Wood-Carrying Song (H 858
[musical transcr. K])
7. Sarah Frank (1907): Coyote Song (H 1135)
8. Sarah Frank (1907): Song sung when settlement is made for
slain person (H 1143)
9. Johnny Cooper (1907): Song sung if a fox cries at one (H
1140)
10. Stone of Weitchpec (1907): Girls' Puberty Song (H 1136)
11. Blind Bill (1927): War Song (H 2720)
12. Blind Bill (1927): Sweathouse Song (H 2721)
13. Louis Oscar (1927): Medicine song (H 2728)
14. Fanny Flounder (1927): Sweathouse song (H 2738)
15. Fanny Flounder (1927): Lullaby (H 2739)
16. Jim Jenson (1927): Shaman's song (H 2742)
17. Florence Shaughnessy (1951): Song of unknown genre
(LA
16 Song 1d)
18. Florence Shaughnessy (1951): Song by Jimmy Gensaw,
unknown genre (LA 16
Song 1h)
19. Mrs. Flaxman (1951): "God song" with
English story (LA
16 Song 2b)
20. Mrs. Hill (1951): Mink's song (LA
16 Song 2e)
21. Frank Quinn (1956): Hupa and Yurok songs (H 112)
22. Ella Norris (1976): Song of unknown genre (EN-TB
Song)