Lelwa retswang teng resentse (We come from the place where we have killed)

Title: Lelwa retswang teng resentse (We come from the place where we have killed)
Performer / Recordist: Eight Kwena men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Tswana; Tswana (African people); Kwena (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "We come from where we have killed. Oh, the greyhead! We-we! We praise our leader. We come from the place where we have killed. Once we killed the people of the Kalahari. We killed them and they killed us." According to the interpreter it appears that initiation songs among the Tswana follow a certin pattern and the same ones are sung by all the Tswana tribes, with local variations. Male initiation song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tswana; Kwena
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Botswana Molepolole
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR0109; 9
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:04:48
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/10962/162817