- Title
- He mogoge goga o lere thokolo (Draw, draw us heavy drops of rain)
- Creator
- Boyalenyana Simamma and large group of women
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk songs, Tswana
- Subject
- Tswana (African people)
- Subject
- Ngwaketse (African people)
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Date Issued
- 1959
- Date
- 1959
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162538
- Identifier
- vital:40945
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR0108-08
- Description
- When the women bring the first crops of the chief, they sing their thanks and ask him to pray for rain. Thele is a custom for women to pretend to beat the chief with leafy branches (very respectfully) when asking him to pray for rain on these occassions
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:03:05
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Tswana/Ngwaketse
- 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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