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Flute Solos: a) Son del Rey Moro (Music for the King of the Moors)/b) Son del Amorate/c) Son para la Procession (Processional Music)/d) Descanso de los Santos (Resting Place of the Saints)/e) Entrada de la Imagen en la Cofradia (Entrance of the Saint into
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produced by Henrietta Yurchenco, 1916-2007; in Music of the Maya-Quiches of Guatemala: The Rabinal Achi and Baile de las Canastas (Folkways Records, 1978), 7 mins
Produced and recorded by Henrietta Yurchenco.

Rabinal Achi is one of the few pre-Columbian literary works to survive the Conquest, a tragic story of epic proportions that, like other pre-Hispanic dramas, employed song, dance, mime, masks and declamation.
Baile de las Canastas (Dance of the Baskets) celebrates...
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produced by Henrietta Yurchenco, 1916-2007; in Music of the Maya-Quiches of Guatemala: The Rabinal Achi and Baile de las Canastas (Folkways Records, 1978), 7 mins
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Palicour Indians of the Arucua River in Brazil
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produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014 (Folkways Records, 1981), 25 mins
"The Palicuour of the Arawak family now living along the Oyapok river in two locations, one in French Guiana and the other in Brazil have become acculturated and integrated into the Creole-society. They still maintain and practice distinct cultural traits that make them unique from other indigenous peoples in Sou...
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produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014 (Folkways Records, 1981), 25 mins
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Chants (No. 46 and 47)
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produced by Anne MacKaye Chapman; performed by Lola Kiepja; in Selk'nam (Ona) Chants of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (Folkways Records, 1972), 4 mins
"These records comprise 47 chants sung by the last true Indian of the Selk’nam (Ona) group, Lola Kiepja. The Selk’nam had no musical instruments. These chants are sung without any sort of accompaniment. The Selk’nam were the former inhabitants of the largest island of Tierra del Fuego which is located jus...
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produced by Anne MacKaye Chapman; performed by Lola Kiepja; in Selk'nam (Ona) Chants of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (Folkways Records, 1972), 4 mins
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