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Title: Ngumantawi (Corn-grinding song)
Identifier(s): audio:11828; APSdigrec_5378; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 03
Description: Same as previous two songs, without the noise of wind interference.
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
Date: 1965-07

Title: Pan Indian Songs: When the dance is over I'll take you home
Identifier(s): audio:11981; APSdigrec_5399; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 05
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
Date: 1965-07

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: Conversation regarding the merits of good songs and how songs are made
Identifier(s): audio:11992; APSdigrec_5402; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 08
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
Date: 1965-07

Title: Discussion of So'yoko kachina
Identifier(s): audio:11834; APSdigrec_5380; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 05
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; Kachinas
Date: 1965-07

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: Tsa'kwayna (Warrior's song)
Identifier(s): audio:11846; APSdigrec_5383; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 08
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
Date: 1965-07

Title: Pima Bajo elicitations
Identifier(s): audio:5507; APSdigrec_0978; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 01
Description: Words, phrases, and sentences given in Pima Bajo and Spanish.; Recorded at Yecora, Sonora, Mexico.
Source: Dunnigan, Timothy. Pima Bajo recordings, 1965. (Mss.Rec.55);
Subject: Pima Bajo language; Pima Bajo language--Grammar; Indians of Mexico--Sonora (State); syntax
Date: 1965-07

Title: Discussion of qa'ökachintawi (corn kachina song)
Identifier(s): audio:12004; APSdigrec_5405; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 11
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; Kachinas
Date: 1965-07

Title: Pima Bajo elicitations
Identifier(s): audio:5511; APSdigrec_0983; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 02
Description: Words, phrases, and sentences given in Pima Bajo and Spanish.; Recorded at Yecora, Sonora, Mexico.
Source: Dunnigan, Timothy. Pima Bajo recordings, 1965. (Mss.Rec.55);
Subject: Pima Bajo language; Pima Bajo language--Grammar; Indians of Mexico--Sonora (State); syntax
Date: 1965-07

Title: Owaqölö tawi (basket dance)
Identifier(s): audio:11899; APSdigrec_5389; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 14
Description: "This dance is performed by women after permission is obtained from the people of the Badger Clan. Membership in the clan is not necessary in order to participate. The song is generally used for initiating young boys and girls into special societies. "About thirty one women usually perform the dance, while seven men sit at the side and smoke during the dance. Prior to smoking, the men gather the special items necessary for the dance, wood, cottonwood root for prayer feathers. Both men and women stay up the previous night praying before the dance. In the morning the men dance with the women. The dance takes its name from the coiled baskets held in the hands of the women. The dance continues all day."
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--Religion; Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Palasowitsmi (red-bearded long-haired kachina dance)
Identifier(s): audio:11986; APSdigrec_5400; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 06
Description: "A kachina dance performed during the summer, usually June."
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; Kachinas
Date: 1965-07

Title: Pima Bajo elicitations
Identifier(s): audio:5519; APSdigrec_0987; Recording Number: 11; Program Number: 02
Description: Words, phrases, and sentences given in Pima Bajo and Spanish.; Recorded at Yecora, Sonora, Mexico.
Source: Dunnigan, Timothy. Pima Bajo recordings, 1965. (Mss.Rec.55);
Subject: Pima Bajo language; Pima Bajo language--Grammar; Indians of Mexico--Sonora (State); syntax
Date: 1965-07

Title: So'yoko (kachina song)
Identifier(s): audio:11831; APSdigrec_5379; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 04
Description: "This is the wicked kachina that children fear."
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; Kachinas
Date: 1965-07

Title: Uytawi (planting and harvesting song)
Identifier(s): audio:11902; APSdigrec_5390; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 15
Description: "This is sung when the corn begins to emerge and the tips begin to protrude from the ground. The customary practice involves the ceremonial shaking of the tips to encourage growth. This song is sung at that time. "In Oraibi the women are supposed to sing this to help the growth of the bean plants. Beans are planted around mid May. This first planting is designated as humimongwi. Traditionally the Chief plants his crops first; thereafter, all others can plant."
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; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Mosayurtawi (Buffalo dance with English words)
Identifier(s): 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."
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
Date: 1965-07

Title: Tsuku tawi, hakochiney: Translation and commentary
Identifier(s): audio:11756; APSdigrec_5367; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 14
Description: "There follows a discussion of the relation of planting crops and special songs. There are, according to this informant, no special planting songs. According to the informant's uncle, there are songs containing very special power which were supposed to make plants grow rapidly. The songs are believed to contain powers of witchcraft and so the informant's uncle refused to teach him the songs."
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
Date: 1965-07

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

Title: Tsukutawi (Clown song,) concerning "grandfather moon"
Identifier(s): audio:11886; APSdigrec_5388; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 13
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; Kachinas
Date: 1965-07

Title: Tsukutawi (Clown song) of Zuni origin
Identifier(s): 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.
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; Kachinas; Zuni Indians--Music
Date: 1965-07