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Watch now: Big Jim: Yaqui Easter rosaries
In this 2015 episode of the "Our Storied Desert Land" series, the late Tucson folklorist Jim Griffith describes the role rosaries play in Yaqui Easter ceremonies.
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Cultural anthropologist James S. "Big Jim" Griffith, 86, died Dec. 18. Here are some of his stories. One begins: "According to their owners, these stories should be told only during the cold weather, when the snakes are asleep ..."
In 2015, the late James S. "Big Jim" Griffith shared stories, artifacts, and songs of the So…
Roman Barten-Sherman spent more than a year working with the late Big Jim Griffith during the pandemic, digitizing the Tucson folklorist's collection of field recordings.
