- Title
- Mamilambo
- Creator
- Women of Kalana location
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Folk music--South Africa
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Xhosa (African people)
- Subject
- Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
- Date Issued
- 1957
- Date
- 1957
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150003
- Identifier
- vital:38929
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR059-16
- Description
- A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. "Mamilambo" is said to be a spirit or charm in the shape of a snake, which the people buy from the diviners in order to obtain good luck and get rich-so it was explained. The married women were more soberly dressed than the young unmarried ones and wore their headclothes in the more usual Xhosa 'pile' of cloth on the head, producing a large loose turban-like effect. Diviner's song, with clapping.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:02:50
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Xhosa
- Rights
- International Library of African Music
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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