Noh'a Metsi (Water snake)
- Authors: Agnes Nchanyana. 4 assistants and group of women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161222 , vital:40604 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-08
- Description: The leader does a shaking dance on her knees as she sings "Water snake! it comes out the east and it is very angry." The singer, in addition to her diviner's beads, shells, bells and small antelope horns, wore a large Catholic rosary with a worn medal of the Sacred heart, knotted into her girdle. Her scarlet skirt was thickly embroidered with designs in white beads. The adoption of Catholic symbols by pagans for their divination rites is common in nominally Catholic countries, especially by Black Africans (originally referred to as Negroes at the time) who use them in their Voodoo ceremonies. Diviners' song with cylindrical drum (-14.03-) and frame drum (-14.92-).
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- Date Issued: 1959
Nong (Vulture)
- Authors: Tlokotsi Lesikara and Mohomane , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161852 , vital:40683 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-07
- Description: Herdboy's tune with whistle and calls to their cattle and their dogs. Self delectative tune on the Lesiba.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Nthakwedi-Nthakwetsane
- Authors: Meini Mokgosi and about 30 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165484 , vital:41248 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-09
- Description: "Hurry up! Hurry! The Chief has gone to the kraal. When will the rain come?" The leader of this group of women was the wife of the Chief's uncle Ketshwerebothata. This rain song is sung from October to December and in times of drought, but also sung on festive or ceremonial occassions. Sung by both men and women. This song has a particularly long melolic line. Rain song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ntoeng (To the war)
- Authors: Mpara Masienyane and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Mokoroane f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162182 , vital:40817 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-01
- Description: This Lengae is sung when boys are going up to the initiation school. "Maluke's husband captured Seleke, a cow for which there had been much fighting. A question is asked about Maphaleng's grave. 'Is it where we have been fighting? Who do you say should take me to war? I am afraid when men go out armed.' Men, you do not make sufficient sound. Is it because of all that beard? Lengae men's initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Nyeketheula
- Authors: Small boys of Koali , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Koali f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160993 , vital:40576 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-03
- Description: Mouse hunting song
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- Date Issued: 1959
Nyiti inkwekwezi (We are the star)
- Authors: Mushumbo Dlamini and the Star Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Swazi (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock Mine, N. Eswatini f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153187 , vital:39417 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-03
- Description: "We are the star when the sun sets and when sun rises." (i.e. "We shine by night and by day.") The words are in Swati, English and Xhosa. Many such Small groups of singers give themselves fanciful names mostly in English and not in their own vernacular. Topical song (Mbude style).
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- Date Issued: 1959
O sempone le la kana ke botlhale (I may be young, but I am clever)
- Authors: Silas Kgaragoba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Zeerust f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165877 , vital:41291 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-12
- Description: "Do not see me as young as I am, but I am clever." i.e. "I may be young, but I am clever."Sung when going up to the hills for initiation.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Oa lla moholili (The crane is crying)
- Authors: Mokoto Tsoeliane and group of men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Koali's f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161964 , vital:40697 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-17
- Description: The dance is the favourite country dance of most Sotho men. Mohobelo dance with stamping and hissing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Oa mona Letsie (You see Letsie) Chief of Leribe.
- Authors: Seforo Mosese , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162012 , vital:40749 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-04
- Description: "You see Letsie, Leribe where there is a beautiful small mountain. Brakpan with its small pretty hill. My mother's Mosinoa, mother's child. You see Seforo, you see Tefolo. Mosinoa, Moea's child, is crying. He cries although nobody has hit him." Mokorotlo riding song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Old saw-pit, Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim (South Africa) -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa -- Stutterheim , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: picture , still image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60448 , vital:27781 , This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
- Description: Caption "Old saw-pit in receding forest, Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim. One figure in the pit, one on edge. Bole of latifolius yellow-wood at the edge. 1959."
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- Date Issued: 1959
Old steam engine at Isidenge, King Williams Town
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Isidenge, King William's Town (South Africa) -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa -- King William's Town , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: picture , still image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60438 , vital:27780 , This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
- Description: Caption "Old steam engine at Isidenge, King Williams Town. Such are still used by sawyers in the area beacause they can be fired by sawdust and cut-offs from the sawn timber. Gordon Ranger standing beside. 1959."
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- Date Issued: 1959
Olea capensis - Black Ironwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Olea capensis-- Pinus insignis -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121022 , vital:34967
- Description: Caption "Looking across Upper Kubusie valley towards Mt. Kubusie, under a Black Ironwood tree. 1959."
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- Date Issued: 1959
Owe, owe, Matebeleng (Oh, oh, home to the Ndebele)
- Authors: Mapidio Elisabeth Mothulwe and group of 30 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165996 , vital:41305 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-09
- Description: "Red locust, to the Ndebele, it does not return. It comes where it had gone to graze. From the grazing to the Ndebele. Home, home, to the Ndebele. Oh, oh, to the Ndebele. Oh, oh, to the Ndebele." The country of the Ndebele is towards the East, towards Pieterburg and they were the traditional enemies of the local Tswana/Kgatla. Their enemies, the Ndebele or Matebele, are likened to the red locust swarms which used to devastate the crops and the grazing each year. Hoeing song with drum.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Palms on Yellow-wood River
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Palms -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75584 , vital:30438
- Description: Caption: "Palms. On Yellow-wood River, at crossing to Hanover. King Williams Town district. 1959."
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- Date Issued: 1959
Paseka oa tseka (Paseka is complaining)
- Authors: Mahlapane Qalike and group of Sotho women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tebang f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162304 , vital:40831 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-13
- Description: "Paseka is disputing over a piece of land, foolishly. He is disputing over the site behind Semoti's house. You, Mampolletse of Makhaba, The thing becomes more serious at night. Do not give Mahlapane any corn she does not hoe her cornfields. If my voice were a clock I would be ringing it through to Natal. To my friend at Monyameng. The length of a bundle of reeds." Lelingoana women's initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Paulo (Paul)
- Authors: School girls of Qeme , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161816 , vital:40679 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-04
- Description: This singing game is done in a circle, each girl kneeling with a stone in her hand. They beat their stones on the ground and in some cases hand them onto the next girl to their right in an anti-clockwise direction. This singing is also found among the Tswana. Singing game.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Phatshwa bolela (Tell us, black and white ox)
- Authors: Rantana Dinake and a large group of men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162790 , vital:40983 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0109-06
- Description: "Black and white ox, tell us where the trampled grass has been swept away. The grass which was carried awayby the water." In the words of this song, the rain clouds are likened to a black and white ox. The rain has beaten down the grass and swept away the debris of broken stalks. Where? A good example of the poetic imagery typical of some Tswana poetry. Rain song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Phoenix reclinata - Palm
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Phoenix reclinata -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122693 , vital:35320
- Description: Caption "On Yellow-wood River, at crossing. King Williams Town district. 1959."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Pholo ha lieme (Stop the ox-span)
- Authors: Mosinoa Moea and group of 12 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162077 , vital:40755 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-07
- Description: "Mosinoa, the child who was carried in a lambskin sling. Monyokholo, a glutton of a child. At Tlokoeng I am treated decently, I am regarded as a young gentleman!" Mohobelo dance song with hissing.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Pina eaa badisa (A herdboy's song)
- Authors: Kgosietsile Mokgosi and Seyedi Merafe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164975 , vital:41190 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-03
- Description: This instrument was peculiar to the herdboys in the old days but is seldom seen now-a-days, they say. The pitch of the open string was 146 vs. Herdman's song with one stringed resonated bowed zither "Segankure".
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- Date Issued: 1959