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Title: Powamuya (bean dance song)
Identifier(s): audio:24054; APSdigrec_5391; 03; 16
Description: "This dance is held in the kiva during the month of February when the bean plants appear as sprouts."; This recording has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive, pending further review. Reproduction and online access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Explanation of the origin and composition of Wuwuchim in Hopi
Identifier(s): audio:11304; APSdigrec_5344; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 14
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-08

Title: Anosqatawi (water-throwing song)
Identifier(s): audio:11917; APSdigrec_5394; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 19
Description: "This song is part of a symbolic plea for rain. During times of drought young boys, accompanied by their grandfathers would walk through the villages so that water might be sprinkled on them. The song is sung by the grandfather and is a plea for rain to fall."
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Discussion of Corn Grinding Song
Identifier(s): audio:13842; APSdigrec_4852; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 02
Description: Explanation of corn grinding song, given in Hopi only, followed by additional singing.
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Songs, 1960. (Mss.Rec.47); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.47-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1960

Title: Wuwuchim tawi: Commentary in English
Identifier(s): audio:11297; APSdigrec_5343; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 13
Description: General name for older songs of prediction.
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-08

Title: Tsuku tawi about a grasshopper: Translation and commentary
Identifier(s): audio:11735; APSdigrec_5362; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 09
Description: "Clown song. Text deals with animal fable, a grasshopper. The text is explained in English by the informant."
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Foklore; Hopi Indians--Religion
Date: 1965-07

Title: Discussion of Harvest Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:13855; APSdigrec_4854; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 04
Description: Explanation of preceding Harvest Dance Song given in English, with gloss of Hopi words.
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Songs, 1960. (Mss.Rec.47); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.47-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1960

Title: Heveyveta' tawi: Translation and commentary
Identifier(s): audio:11276; APSdigrec_5338; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 08
Description: Water-sprinkling song. A game song performed by boys and girls.
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-08

Title: Palhiktawi (song of the "singer society")
Identifier(s): audio:11911; APSdigrec_5393; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 18
Description: "The dance associated with this song is performed by initiated women of the mamzaw society. This society maintains close ties with the men's singer society (the tatawkya) and must grant permission in order for the women to perform this dance. There is much teasing on the part of the men in the process of granting permission, but at one point in the dance the men and women of the two societies dance together."
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Discussion of Basket dance
Identifier(s): audio:12040; APSdigrec_5412; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 18
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Tsuku tawi about a grasshopper
Identifier(s): audio:11732; APSdigrec_5361; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 08
Description: "Clown song. Text deals with animal fable, a grasshopper. The text is explained in English by the informant."
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Foklore; Hopi Indians--Religion
Date: 1965-07

Title: Discussion of Buffalo Dance
Identifier(s): audio:13865; APSdigrec_4857; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 07
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Songs, 1960. (Mss.Rec.47); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.47-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1960

Title: Wuwuchim
Identifier(s): audio:11381; APSdigrec_5349; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 19
Description: "A didactic song, usually dealing with prognostication of future events for the Hopi. It also may contain critical comments about the way in which the Hopi live in adherence with the expected and valued customs. "The words of the song are archaic; Albert asks the informant for an explanation of the text and Talawepi then provides commentary interpolating his explanation with singing, taken from the original song."
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1965-08

Title: Wuwuchim tawi: Commentary in Hopi
Identifier(s): audio:11293; APSdigrec_5342; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 12
Description: General name for older songs of prediction.
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-08

Title: Makkachintawi (hunting song)
Identifier(s): 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."
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Religion; Hunting songs
Date: 1965-07