Four 12” vinyl records
Recorded 1958 by R. G. Watson
Released 1974 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
From the accompanying text, titled María Sabina and her Mazatec Mushroom Velada: “We here offer to interested readers the text of a shamanic ceremony performed on the night of 12-13 July 1958 by María Sabina in the Mazatec village of Huautla de Jiménez, in the Sierra Madre Oriental, at the northernmost corner of the State of Oaxaca, in Mexico...all the adults including of course the officiants were under the potent influence of the divine inebriant, a species of Psilocybe.” (p. IX)
Sony Type I and Maxell Type II audio compact cassettes
Recorded at a 1992 NYBG Board of Managers meeting and the 1995 Botanical Gardens retreat
The Institutional Archives are currently being processed by Nicole Font and Kate Pigliacelli thanks to a four-year grant from the Leon Levy Foundation.
Manufactured between 1990 and 1992
This handheld recording kit may have been used by NYBG staff to record meetings, events, and/or oral histories.
CD-ROM (Compact Disk – Read-Only Memory)
All songs by James A. Duke, except tenth (by Vip Vipperman and Buddy Blackmon) and eleventh/fourteenth selections (by Les Alstatt)
Produced by James A. Duke, Vip Vipperman, and Buddy Blackmon
Copyright 1998
