"You women who cannot cook, tell us where the noise is." The meaning is that where there is noise, there may be a party and where there is a party there is good cheer. Introduced by each pipe played in turn around the circle of old men. Most of the pipes were made of reed. The pipes must be immersed in water before playing or they will not sound. They were very old pipes and the tuning was clearly awry, the old players being unable to tune them accurately. Pipe dance with Dithloko end-blown reed
"I will go towards Nyantungu until I reach Kaluguyu." Four men and women were playing the one drum, ...
The players start to play begining with the pipe 3rd from the lowest. Each piper above then takes hi...
This hunting flute melodies improvised by the player as he sits iutside the hut of a dead friend hav...
The reed pipe players both sang and blowed their pipes alternately each having a distinct part in th...
"You are giving me a lot of trouble. Go and eat food prepared by my mother on a basket. You will fin...
"Johnnie's mother weeps, where did Johnnie die? (she says). Johnnie died when they were cattle-raidi...
Introduced by the 'Hino Nacional', the Portuguese national anthem. Women came out in pairs and dance...
Introduced by the 'Hino Nacional', the Portuguese national anthem. Women came out in pairs and dance...
An old song, now only sung by the older men and danced by the men at drinking parties. This wicked o...
The names of the drums from small to large are: Gogogo, Chamutanda, Muntundu, Pininga and Pati. The ...
After singing their song they tap their bamboo friction sticks and laugh and blow into the ends of t...
The four drums used were 1) Mutumba, an open conical drum 37" tall, 11" membrane; 2) Jenje, an open ...
Introduced by the 'Hino Nacional', the Portuguese national anthem. Women came out in pairs and dance...
The drinking songs of this area are largely composed of shouting and chanting without intelligable w...
The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length a...
"I will go towards Nyantungu until I reach Kaluguyu." Four men and women were playing the one drum, ...
The players start to play begining with the pipe 3rd from the lowest. Each piper above then takes hi...
This hunting flute melodies improvised by the player as he sits iutside the hut of a dead friend hav...
The reed pipe players both sang and blowed their pipes alternately each having a distinct part in th...
"You are giving me a lot of trouble. Go and eat food prepared by my mother on a basket. You will fin...
"Johnnie's mother weeps, where did Johnnie die? (she says). Johnnie died when they were cattle-raidi...
Introduced by the 'Hino Nacional', the Portuguese national anthem. Women came out in pairs and dance...
Introduced by the 'Hino Nacional', the Portuguese national anthem. Women came out in pairs and dance...
An old song, now only sung by the older men and danced by the men at drinking parties. This wicked o...
The names of the drums from small to large are: Gogogo, Chamutanda, Muntundu, Pininga and Pati. The ...
After singing their song they tap their bamboo friction sticks and laugh and blow into the ends of t...
The four drums used were 1) Mutumba, an open conical drum 37" tall, 11" membrane; 2) Jenje, an open ...
Introduced by the 'Hino Nacional', the Portuguese national anthem. Women came out in pairs and dance...
The drinking songs of this area are largely composed of shouting and chanting without intelligable w...
The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length a...
"I will go towards Nyantungu until I reach Kaluguyu." Four men and women were playing the one drum, ...
The players start to play begining with the pipe 3rd from the lowest. Each piper above then takes hi...
This hunting flute melodies improvised by the player as he sits iutside the hut of a dead friend hav...