Details

Abstract / Summary

Instrument(s) used: Miren 1 [slit-drum] Werum 1 [slit-drum] korr’korr 1 [slit-drum] Novak 1 [vessel rattle] musket 4 [plosive aerophone]

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) 'AMOK II. Tr i) Na-val-nas (kneeling and head shaking). They sing Tsar-Tsaren,pig and drums at beginning. Tr. ii) More of the 10 Tsar Tsaren.'

Side 1:

Presentation of pigs, dancers (40-60 of them) are kneeling and chanting.

Side 2:

Begin singing first of 10 Tsir-Tsaren (continues on 1993.6.96). The end of each Tsir-Tsaren is indicated by falsetto. The Tsir-Tsaren are roughly about:

First (no notes as to content)

Second calls for peace between Amokh and Bwiter ( neighbouring village)

Third possibly indicates impending retirement of Amokh chief. At the end of this Tsir-Tsaren, the chief calls down the 'Tamat' or ancestral spirits [I think--TRS]

Fourth: during this, the pig that will be given by Nighambat (chief of Bwiter) to Wirghambat (chief of Amokh) is shown, the drums beat Sekir [a pattern].

Fifth: during this, all things to be given to Nighambat are put ready, and Nighambat promises to give the pig to Wirghambat at time of Maki.

Sixth calls the names of places and for an end to trouble between them.

Seventh (illegible)

Eighth: the end of death exchange is sung.

Ninth calls for all to be friends, especially the two chiefs.

Tenth: "Before, a chief was shot, the guilty ones had to run away, but now amnesty is declared, they stay one place."

Content Type

Field recording (raw)

Duration

24 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