1993_6_1_152: Untitled
of University of Oxford. Pitt Rivers Museum, in The Raymond Clausen Archive, Recordings (1962), 16 mins
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Instrument(s) used: Nembu wetur 4 [panpipes]
- 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
On 17/8/62
1) conversation in Sali's Naghamel, preparing Nalok (yam lap-lap) etc. Noise of steam from coconut milk going on hot, singed birds, fire stones being raked aside, Nalok carried and plunged into fire-pit. recorded at 9:30
2) Melterum, recorded 19:00
On 19/8/62, at 16:00:
3) Nembu Wetur (panpipes, possibly a bundle of six, rather than the more usual configuration of seven pipes), played by Michel and then by Silas, followed by tuning. [Note: description on dubbing of this track, on 1993.6.377 confirms this is a six-pipe configuration]
- Content Type
- Field recording (raw)
- Duration
- 16 mins
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Raymond Clausen, fl. 1960
- Format
- Audio
- Date Recorded
- 1977-04-11
- Release Date
- 1962
- Series Number
- Recordings
- Subject
- World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Australia and the Pacific Islands, Cultural anthropology
