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12021-07-29T21:03:39+00:00Annotation 8.2 | Song (477.7)7plain2022-03-01T21:39:18+00:00AnnotationThis song is one of a small group that Boas transcribed in 1886 in X̱wa̱mdasbi’, Hope Island, and he first published the lyrics as part of a series of Nunła̱m songs in 1890 (1890a:78). He retranscribed the lyrics at the 1893 Worlds Fair (APS.A.W9:130, 238), where he also made a wax cylinder recording of the song (cyl 65; APS.A.W9:130, 238). Tom Hemasi’lakw was the singer for this recording; he was Boas’s interpreter in 1886 and may also have provided Boas’s 1886 version. In 1933, Hunt wrote down another version of the lyrics (APS.A.W3, 1933:5580-81); based on this text, Boas created yet another version between 1933 and 1943 (APS.A.W8, 5:43). [Cylinder no longer extant]