Add to ORKG"They have tried all day to mark his face, but failed. My child Kilumba is still too young." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices
A man built a big house, cut the necessary grass and poles and left them in the bush. A bird came an...
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"They have tried all day to mark his face, but failed. My child Kilumba is still too young." The cut...
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A man built a big house, cut the necessary grass and poles and left them in the bush. A bird came an...
"Lizard soften the hide (for making skin blankets). Mother come and see the thing that has been biti...
The words of this song make no sense. The people of this district are actually Fingo or Mfengu but s...
"They have tried all day to mark his face, but failed. My child Kilumba is still too young." The cut...
"The red necked cock looked up to the sky." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by ...
"Uhimila was so fine a dancer that even Kihimyali would bow down and clap his hands." All African tr...
A child hunting mice dug a hole and found an eagle inside. The bird told him not to tell his mother ...
One of the traditional methods of reciting praises in this country is for the reciter to manipulate ...
One of the traditional methods of reciting praises in this country is for the reciter to manipulate ...
This is an example of a song sung at the preliminary feast before circumcision. On the day before th...
The singer like most Kipsigis, hisses in between verses. He mocks the uncircumcised and people who d...
This song was sung at an informal drinking party at a friend's hut. The singers were not informed be...
The Mayogo are a Sudanic people who came under the influence of the Mangbetu and adopted their ways ...
Waikova is a beautiful and highly coloured bird, they explained, but is more likely to be the common...
This song refers to the man Sigilai who first introduced the Chemonget, one of the Kipsigis lyres. T...
A man built a big house, cut the necessary grass and poles and left them in the bush. A bird came an...
"Lizard soften the hide (for making skin blankets). Mother come and see the thing that has been biti...
The words of this song make no sense. The people of this district are actually Fingo or Mfengu but s...