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March 6, 2006
Subject:
"the sticks, the bird, the four-part thing to pull on"
Tracked this down because of Peter Lamborn Wilson's references to the "strange lectures" given by Smith.
Harry Smith was a student of Paul Radin, who has written several well-received books on Native American myth.
In this talk Smith attempts to recount ceremonies he attended in the 1940's based on his own admittedly cloudy memory and capricious interest: "the ideas are going to be somewhat disjointed..."
He manages a few interesting comments, but the talk is fairly plodding, unfocused, and tangential (and not in any particularly interesting way).