Stories reconstructed from anthropological field notes, sacred games, and contemporary Indian gatherings, are combined to form documentaries, features, and dramas on themes from indigenous American culutres.|DECEMBER'S CHILD : CHUMASH MYTHOLOGY / produced by Faith Wilding and Everett Frost. - SERIES: Stories from the Spirit World : the myths and legends of Native Americans| no. 3 - Stories reconstructed from anthropological field notes, sacred games, and contemporary Indian gatherings, are combined to form documentaries, features, and dramas on themes from indigenous American cultures. CONTENT: Radio dramatization of Old Woman Momoy and her Grandson, an initiation story told by the Chumash Indians of Santa Barbara. The dramatization employs a full Native American cast, and uses music created on authentic reconstructions of Chumash instruments. - RECORDED: 1986.
r.1. Radio dramatization of Old Woman Momoy and her Grandson, an initiation story told by the Chumash Indians of Santa Barbara. The dramatization employs a full Native American cast, and uses music created on authentic reconstructions of Chumash instruments (30 min.) -- r.2. Radio dramatizations of Chumash stories about the trickster-shaman Coyote. The program employs modern studio technology to recount Coyote's visit to the Sun, and to the ancestral Swordfish in their underwater homes (30 min.).
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