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Luiseño language -- Vocabulary

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

'aanat, undated

 File — Box 3
Identifier: CICSC01_03-15
Scope and Contents

Typescript and handwritten notes regarding song "'aanat," a hunting song that "belonged to Jose Luis Albañas."

Dates: undated

The heetay chant, undated

 File — Box 3
Identifier: CICSC01_03-18
Scope and Contents

Typescript and handwritten notes regarding the heetay chant. Notes state that "this is just a list written by José Luís Albanas to remember the order of these words in certain songs. Not a chant. JLA notes had 2 versions of this list."

Dates: undated

tʃaatu xilliniʃ, undated

 File — Box 3
Identifier: CICSC01_03-17
Scope and Contents

Typescript and handwritten notes regarding song "tʃaatu xilliniʃ." Notes state that this song was to call the wind. Notes also state: "This is one of the songs sung by José Luís Albanas in 1882, which brought such a snowfall that several people died. Before singing the songs in that year, he asked Maria Jesus Omish if she wd. prefer rain or snow, she said snow. The result was the 12 ft. deep snowfell."

Dates: undated