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Collection Audio Recording Web Page David McAllester recordings of a Navajo shootingway ceremony Navajo shooting way #1 / Kin be hataal for Chic Sandoval

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Title

  • David McAllester recordings of a Navajo shootingway ceremony

Other Title

  • Navajo shooting way #1
  • Kin be hataal for Chic Sandoval

Summary

  • Recording of a Navajo chant sung by Diné Tsosi and Ray Winnie. In June of 1958, David McAllester recorded Diné Tsosi performing a full Shootingway ceremony for a relative of both Ray Winnie and Frank Mitchell, Albert G. Sandoval. The Shootingway, Na'at'oyee, is a major Navajo curing ceremony which can be performed in a one-night, five-night, or full nine-night version. The singing is accompanied by an inverted basket drum and drumstick of plaited yucca leaves. Overall description supplied by Wesleyan University World Music Archives and index includes variant titles from tape containers.

Names

  • Tsosi, Diné, performer.
  • McAllester, David P. (David Park), 1916-2006, collector.

Created / Published

  • 1964, 1958.

Headings

  • -  Navajo Indians--Music
  • -  Navajo Indians--Rites and ceremonies
  • -  Songs, Navajo--Arizona
  • -  Indians of North America--Arizona--Music
  • -  Field recordings--Arizona
  • -  Na'at'oyee (Navajo rite)

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Prayers

Notes

  • -  Originals recorded at Lukachukai, Arizona from June 2-10, 1958 by David P. McAllester. Copies for the Archive of Folk Song made by David P. McAllester in 1964.
  • -  David McAllester recordings of a Navajo Shootingway Ceremony (AFC 1965/014), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Recordings are copies of 23 sound tape reels : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 5 in. at Wesleyan University, World Music Archives Middletown, Conn.
  • -  David P. McAllester, 1965.
  • -  McAllester, David. "Shootingway: An Epic Drama of the Navajos," in Southwestern Indian Ritual Drama, Charlotte J. Frisbie, ed., School of Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1980).

Medium

  • 11 sound tape reels : analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track ; 7 in.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008700450

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  • Duplication of sound recordings may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

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  • web page

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Chicago citation style:

Mcallester, David P. , Collector. David McAllester recordings of a Navajo shootingway ceremony. performeds by Tsosi, Diné , 1958, 1964. Web Page. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008700450/.

APA citation style:

McAllester, D. P. (1964) David McAllester recordings of a Navajo shootingway ceremony. Tsosi, D., performer , 1958. [Web Page] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008700450/.

MLA citation style:

Mcallester, David P. , Collector. David McAllester recordings of a Navajo shootingway ceremony. performer by Tsosi, Diné , 1958, 1964. Web Page. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2008700450/>.