Hla unakwahamba (Who gave you that food?)

Title: Hla unakwahamba (Who gave you that food?)
Creator: Group of young Mpondo boys
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--South Africa
Subject: Folk songs, Xhosa
Subject: Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
Date Issued: 1957
Date: 1957
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136569
Identifier: vital:37392
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR032-05
Description: The performers were all about 18 or thereabouts. This group wore red blankets with rows of white braid on the girls' skirts. The girls wore very attractive circlets of beads on the head, passing over the forehead and bead chin straps, also a head band passing over the top of the head and round the base of the skull. The sexes were divided dancing at right angles to each other and the girls kept up a shrill high descant. The men danced in a circle as tightly packed sardines. The main feature of the boys' costume were the immense number of strands of beads wound about the hips to a depth of 18 or more. The edges of the blankets were also beaded. The girls also wore three swathings of beads around the hips. 3 Gubura dances for young men.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:03:15
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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