Ke ne ke le meiti (I was a maid)

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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