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) 'B22. Tr (i), 13th Dec. '61, 9:30 a.m, Dirac drum rhyhthms. a) D.N. b). c) Taur. d) Pig presentation. Tr. (ii) a) cont. of d). b) 5:30 p.m, hauling drum. c) 9:45 p.m., D.N (with voice).'

Recorded on Wowo dancing ground, for consecration of new drum, and performed by Dirac visitors from Norsup. "Dirac" translates as "Bush people". They were originally settled on Malekula directly across channel from Atchin, but had been resettled at Norsup [also on Malekula, nearer to Wala].

Side 1:

9:30:

1) pitch check

2) Durei-na-mbwe, using two uprights, two korr'korr, one Tsoron.

3) Nambwe Nub Nub

4) Taur

5) pig presentation. First, chief dances, then pigs are brought by his men and given to him formally. Next, the chief secures the pigs to stones, then redistributes them amonst visiting chiefs. Continued on Side 2.

Side 2:

1) continuation of pig presentation.

2) 17:30: hauling new upright slit-drum (Miren) from where it was cut and made, to the dancing ground. The haulers are singing a work chant. After the drum is hauled to the dancing ground, it is left on its side for several days and decorated with flowers, before being raised. The raising of this drum is recorded on 1993.6.116.

3) 21:45: Durei-na-mbwe to try out new Miren [played horizontally].

Continues on 1993.6.110

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