He mogoge goga o lere thokolo (Draw, draw us heavy drops of rain)

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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