Cisokole (Field Card)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR190 (1950) , 2 page(s)
Details
- Field of Interest
- World Music
- Copyright Message
- Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
- Description
- This is a story about certain men who went out hunting and discovered some eggs and ate a few of them. They decided that they woud not carry any home, but one of them, because he loved his wife took one home for his wife. His wife made him bring these eggs several times until in the end the snake, which laid these eggs, killed him. The story teller says she was taught this story by her mother's mother.
- Content Type
- Field notes
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
- Format
- Text
- Sub Genre
- Spoken Word, Song
- Page Count
- 2
- Series Number
- TR190
- Subject
- World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Africa, Cultural anthropology, Spoken Word, Song, Northern Region (Malawi)
