Patse mtondo wanga (Give me my mortar)

Title: Patse mtondo wanga (Give me my mortar)
Creator: Thawani Mwale
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Songs, Chewa
Subject: Songs, Nyanja
Subject: Nyanja (African people)
Subject: Chewa (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Africa Malawi Mubvi, Salima District f-mw
Date Issued: 1958
Date: 1958
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156810
Identifier: vital:40052
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR092-06
Description: A woman who has no child of her own complains to her friend who has a child. "Give me my mortar. I also need flour." But she has no child to help her. Sung with considerable feeling for the situation in which the woman finds herself. Lament (also used as a drinking song) with Bangwe board zither.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:03:16
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Nyanja/Chewa
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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