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National Museum of Natural History

SUMMARY

A recording made in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, Japan during an ethnographic study of child life. Contents of recording: 1. Uepekere, by Toroshino Kaizawa (female age 75, 12 August 1965) [The story was told as an example of the types of stories told to children who are 7 or 8 years old. The story is about a woman who recieves an epidemic from a cursed rotten stump. Her village is saved from the epidemic because her husband performs a ritual harucahrupa ceremony to banish the evil].

CITE AS

Sister Marie Inez Hilger Papers, Sound Recordings, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

REPOSITORY LOC.

National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland

Keywords

Sister Marie Inez Hilger Sound Recordings 1952-1973 Language and languages Ethnology Speeches, addresses, etc.

Place : Japan Place : Noboribetsu-shi (Japan)

Date : 1965 Date : August 12, 1965

Culture : Ainu