Mampharoane (Gecko Lizard)

Title: Mampharoane (Gecko Lizard)
Performer / Recordist: Malebaka Moroke; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Sotho; Sotho (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "Lizard soften the hide (for making skin blankets). Mother come and see the thing that has been biting me. I have been bitten by fleas and bed-bugs. This person who is grinding is Malikhetla living in the village of Motemekoane," This grinding song is taken from a local initiation song. Grinding song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Sotho
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Lesotho Maseru
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR0104; 3
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:18
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/10962/161805