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audio:11908; APSdigrec_5392; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 17
Description
"This is a special song for hunting. Men go out at night to hunt; the dance occurs four days later. Girls and boys engage in courtship behavior during the dance."
audio:12025; APSdigrec_5408; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 14
Description
"Buffalo dance with English words. This song was made up by the informant and other Indians attending the Indian school in Albuquerque, in 1930. The melody is that of the traditional Hopi Buffalo dance. English words plus Hopi vocables are added."
audio:11881; APSdigrec_5387; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 12
Description
Same as prior song. "Clown song derived from Zuni. This song was learned from the Zuni by the Hopi who visited. Among the Zuni it was used as a corn-grinding song.
audio:12010; APSdigrec_5407; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 13
Description
"This is a social dance song performed in January before the Bean Ceremony (powamuya).
"Translation of buffalo dance song: 'through the watermelon patch comes rain / they make melons grow / comes rain through the corn / let the water sine after it falls' (this is said to the clouds)"
