Hiho

Title: Hiho
Performer / Recordist: Group of Sotho men and small Sotho boys (Performers); Composer not specified; Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--South Africa; Folk songs, Sotho
Description / content note: This time the mouse-hunting somg was performed by the young hunters themselves. It appears they hunt 2 types of field mouse, one plain, the other stripped. The first song "Hiho" was for the plain rats, the second "Khoana" says: "We are driving the striped rats along the banks towards our friends who are waiting for them."
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Southern Sotho
Place of recording: Africa -- South Africa Matatiele
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1957
Date issued / published: 1957
Identifier: TR018; 6
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:03
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Digitisation (original): 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo; Studer B67 Recorder; Sound Forge V.6
Rights Holder: International Library of African Music
License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Access Rights: Public
Is Part Of: ILAM Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series
Format: audio/mp3
Genre: field recordings
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134205