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Butaka (Field Card)
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Item b) shows the Chondo drum used as an accompaniment to a song. The Chondo drum in this case was a small portable wooden gong of about 24" long and 12" diameter hollowed out through a slit with a rectangular hole at either end. The drum was placed on an insulation ring made of bound grass.
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Chindola wa Mukalenga (Field Card)
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"Mukalenga" is the honorific name of a Chief or "Sultan" in Kanyoka. This song is played at 3 o'clock, at midnight and in the morning in order to waken the Chief. This group brought a "lumembo" a double bell with them, but did not use it. One man tapped the highest note on one xylophone with a wooden stick, whilst...
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Iyahlomi dlovu yekhay’ maye (Field Card)
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It was not known who the "elephant" was - it could have been either the king or the Queen Mother - as the honorific title applies to both.
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Londinda (Field Card)
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A man in the group interpolated praises. The song is sung at weddings and also for the Mhlanga or "reed" ceremonies. It is only sung by the unmarried girls.
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Mhlalo = Name of dance (Field Card)
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"Mukalenga" is the honorific name of a Chief or "Sultan" in Kanyoka. This song is played at 3 o'clock, at midnight and in the morning in order to waken the Chief. This group brought a "lumembo" a double bell with them, but did not use it. One man tapped the highest note on one xylophone with a wooden stick, whilst...
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Musambo wa mazhi (Field Card)
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This item was played after an execution was over and the head had been presented in order to restore the Sultani's spirits. The player of the female xylophone used his normal rubber-headed hand beater in his right hand to play the melody, but turned his left hand beater over and beat the tonic with the handle (Not...
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