The only headdress the women wear is a simple band or string round the head and passing over the forehead. They wear a few strings round their neck occassionaly. Their dress mainly consists of a short knee-length skirt and sometimes a bodice. They sometimes wear a good many copper or brass anklets. Skins are still worn as a covering for the upper part of the body. The men have no special dress, just the usual collection of tattered shirts, shorts and trousers. The implication of the second song is: "Now I am married, I don't know where I'm going to; I may have to sleep any where, perhaps in a tree, perhaps on a stone. Marriage song
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„Nach heidnischer Sitte verschleierte Braut“ („According to heathen custom veiled bride“). A group o...
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These songs were sung by three very small pygmy women all crouching on the ground close together. Th...
„Nach heidnischer Sitte verschleierte Braut“ („According to heathen custom veiled bride“). A group o...
This, it was explained, was a morality song to be sung as a warning to girls not to marry poor men. ...
The only headdress the women wear is a simple band or string round the head and passing over the for...
This group of young women wore pale blue and white blankets. There was only one married woman's bead...
"The wife of Mr. so-and-so, does not eat dry meat." During the songs the women clapped their hands o...
If a man has 2 wives they are jealous of each other; when he goes to see the one, she says: "Go away...
Maria says that in the past at weddings people sang a special song to make the bride sob. It was bel...
"You Lomwe man, go away from me! Let another come and marry me especially a man who wears an elastic...
International audience"The Kel Ferwan are nomads living in camps composed of a man and his wife, the...
In this video Zula explains to Dmitriy about Kalmyk traditional dress. Traditionally, the dress of m...
Alena talks about Kalmyk clothings. Alena: In the past married women wore a tight waistcoat for beau...
A song sung on engagement, when the woman is first brought to the man's home. Robert Golozera is the...
"Even if you divorce me and leave me alone, I will still be able to look after myself." Women songs,...
There was once a young woman who asked her brother Kamchada whether he would allow her to go and see...
These songs were sung by three very small pygmy women all crouching on the ground close together. Th...
„Nach heidnischer Sitte verschleierte Braut“ („According to heathen custom veiled bride“). A group o...
This, it was explained, was a morality song to be sung as a warning to girls not to marry poor men. ...