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Dabuyabarugu: Inside the Temple - Sacred Music of the Garifuna of Belize
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produced by Carol Jenkins and Travis Jenkins (Folkways Records, 1982), 52 mins

The Garifuna are descendants of escaped slaves who intermarried with native Carib and Arawak Indians. This album is a collection of music recorded during a dugu, a two week ceremonial feast that attempts to placate the gods. Requiring a year of preparation, and an ample supply of rum, the music heard on this al...

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produced by Carol Jenkins and Travis Jenkins (Folkways Records, 1982), 52 mins
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Tareng
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produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014; in Music of the Coastal Amerindians of Guyana: The Arawak, Carib and Warrau (Folkways Records, 1982), 5 mins
"This recording presents songs of the Warrau, the Carib, and the Arawak Amerindian tribes of Guyana, South America. These families of Amerindian peoples are spread along the rivers and waterways of the Northeast coast of South America, south of the Orinoco and north of the Amazon, but this recording was made enti...
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produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014; in Music of the Coastal Amerindians of Guyana: The Arawak, Carib and Warrau (Folkways Records, 1982), 5 mins
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Tain gah
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produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014; in Palicour Indians of the Arucua River in Brazil (Folkways Records, 1981), 2 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; in Palicour Indians of the Arucua River in Brazil (Folkways Records, 1981), 2 mins
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Selk'nam (Ona) Chants of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
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produced by Anne MacKaye Chapman (Folkways Records, 1972), 1 hour 43 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 (Folkways Records, 1972), 1 hour 43 mins
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