Yo'eme/Yaqui string band: Pascola dance tune (1983)

This (as of posting time) unidentified string band performing a tune for a Pascola dance was filmed by Alan Lomax and crew near Tucson, Arizona, in May 1983 for a film entitled “Desert Folk.” The film was to be an episode in the “American Patchwork” series on PBS and feature dancers and musicians from Yo'eme/Yaqui, White Mountain Apache, and Tohono O’odham communities, as well as Mexican American and Anglo cowboy traditions, but it was never completed. The tape logs have yet to be transcribed and the footage has yet to be cataloged; we hope to make more available someday, as well as to determine the names of these musicians. For more videos from the American Patchwork fieldwork and information about Alan Lomax and his collections, visit: http://archive.culturalequity.org.