Ditshene tsa Mmuputsoane)

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Title: Ditshene tsa Mmuputsoane)
Performer / Recordist: Rautana Dinake and large group of men and women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Tswana; Tswana (African people); Ngwaketse (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "The baboons of Mmuputsoane eat fruit of the Mumpudu tree, unripe. But not the fruit of the Monyenyana. They would rather eat the Mothwanye fruit, but they must spare the fruit of the Mogwana for we use that to make our cider. Sing my birds." The Mogwana tree is one of the trees of the bushveld. It bears fruit which is used by the Tswana people to make a very potent alcoholic brew, much stronger than beer made from grain. Pina dance with clapping and stamping
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tswana; Ngwaketse
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Botswana Kanye
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR0108; 5
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:55
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/10962/162515

Item sets: Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series

Ditshene tsa Mmuputsoane)

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