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    Anthology of Brazilian Indian Music: Karajá, Javahé, Kraho, Tukuna, Juruna, Suyá, Trumai Shukarramãe

    Smithsonian Folkways
    • Anthology of Brazilian Indian Music: – Krahó: Women-and-Men's choir, conducted by traditional choir-leader
    • 1. Karajá: solo song, man
    • 2. Javahé: Sacred-mask-dance, songs, 'Aruana,' Two masks dancing
    • 3. Krahó: Women-and-Men's choir, conducted by traditional choir-leader
    • 4. Krahó: solo song, man
    • 5. Tukuna: Boys and Girls Choir
    • 6. Tukuna: Boys and Girls Choir
    • 7. Juruna: Women and Men's Choir, Reversal Singing
    • 8. Juruna: Women and Men's Choir, Reversal Singing
    • 9. Suyá: Men's Choir
    • 10. Suyá: Women's Choir
    • 11. Trumai: Duet
    • 12. Shukarramãe: Solo song, man
    • 13. Shukarramãe: Solo song, man (Juparana)
    • 14. Javahe: Lullaby-Song, Mother and Child

    From notes: "About eight hundred Karaja Indians still live on the shores of the Bananal Island, Araguaia River, in Central Brazil. They have been in peaceful contact with our civilization for more than a century but maintain a high level of their old traditions. During the dry season, from May to October, they erect summer-villages of light straw houses on the immense beaches of white, soft and hot sand, performing every afternoon and night their sacred fertility rites, with colorful masks of feather heads and straw skirts..."

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