Mbiya ambwiya wo tiende (Grandmother, let us go)

Title: Mbiya ambwiya wo tiende (Grandmother, let us go)
Performer / Recordist: Jesi Tembo; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Folk music--Zimbabwe; Sena (African people); Tonga (Zambezi people); Folk music; Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia
Description / content note: A hyena's grandmother died and so he went off to suckle from a woman in order to show people that he was in reality the son of the woman. The meaning of this story is not clear, though it is among the many African stories in which people turn themselves or are turned into animals to stress a moral point. Story song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tonga; Sena
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR085; 14
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:28
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/10962/179081