- Title
- Ke ne ke le meiti (I was a maid)
- Creator
- A small group of Sotho women
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk songs, Sotho
- Subject
- Sotho (African people)
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Lesotho Tebang f-lo
- Date Issued
- 1959
- Date
- 1959
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162242
- Identifier
- vital:40824
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR0106-08
- Description
- This song is sung the right before the girls leave the village for their initiation school. "I was a maid to many Europeans. Long ago when I was a girl I tended calves. I had to pay for water, and pay to sleep as well." Lelingoana women's initiation song.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:01:18
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Sotho
- Rights
- International Library of African Music
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Ceative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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