Ke ne ke le meiti (I was a maid)

Title: Ke ne ke le meiti (I was a maid)
Performer / Recordist: A small group of Sotho women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Sotho; Sotho (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: This song is sung the right before the girls leave the village for their initiation school. "I was a maid to many Europeans. Long ago when I was a girl I tended calves. I had to pay for water, and pay to sleep as well." Lelingoana women's initiation song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Sotho
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Lesotho Tebang
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR0106; 8
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:18
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/10962/162242