Khakha si khudu (The big and the small tortoise)

Title: Khakha si khudu (The big and the small tortoise)
Performer / Recordist: Chief Bathoen II C.B.E. and large group of men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Tswana; Tswana (African people); Ngwaketse (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "The great and the small tortoises are both of the same family. When we men are lean it is because we lack the liver of a tortoise. Here is a big tortoise, here is a small one. Take them to the big men!" Men's initiation song.
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: TR0109; 3
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/10962/162763