1993_6_1_117: Clausen Tape B30
of University of Oxford. Pitt Rivers Museum, in The Raymond Clausen Archive, Recordings (1961), 17 mins
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Instrument(s) used: Miren 1 [slit-drum] Werum 1 [slit-drum] Tsoron 1 [slit-drum] korr’korr 1 [slit-drum]
- Field of Interest
- World Music
- Copyright Message
- Material sourced from the Raymond Clausen Archive, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Copyright © Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
- Description
Notes on reel to reel box (MS ink) 'B30. Wowo. See (B).'
Continued from 1993.6.117.
Side 1:
1) slaughtering of pigs to consecrate Miren. Chief [assumed of Amokh, but not sure] parades up and down line of staked pigs on dancing ground, carrying pig-killin implement. When he reaches the drums (at the narrow end of the dancing ground), he kills a high-grade tusker in front of the drums.
2) Next day (or after midnight), Naleng dance rhythm "Bot nio snoel" [field notes state that black palm masks are used, when during Maki]
3) Batarmar Durei-na-mbwe
Side 2:
Batarmar (Bethel) Durei-na-mbwe
Note: this is the last of the Wowo celebration recordings.
- Content Type
- Field recording (raw)
- Duration
- 17 mins
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Raymond Clausen, fl. 1960
- Format
- Audio
- Release Date
- 1961
- Series Number
- Recordings
- Subject
- World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Australia and the Pacific Islands, Cultural anthropology
