He mogoge goga o lere thokolo (Draw, draw us heavy drops of rain)

Title: He mogoge goga o lere thokolo (Draw, draw us heavy drops of rain)
Performer / Recordist: Boyalenyana Simamma and large group of women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Tswana; Tswana (African people); Ngwaketse (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: When the women bring the first crops of the chief, they sing their thanks and ask him to pray for rain. Thele is a custom for women to pretend to beat the chief with leafy branches (very respectfully) when asking him to pray for rain on these occassions
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; 8
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:03:05
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Provenance: 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/10962/162538