Maboko tsa Mothootsile (Praises for Mothootsile)

Title: Maboko tsa Mothootsile (Praises for Mothootsile)
Performer / Recordist: Mothootsile Leshoko; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Tswana; Tswana (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: The praiser was dressed in skins, and wore leather breeches and a skin cap. He was holding a horse-hair switch in one hand and a stick wound round with blue plastic tape. Several women interjected cries and exclamations. The old man explained that his praises were in honour of his totem, the monkey. Praise verse.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tswana; Tlharo
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa -- South Africa Disaneng
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR0110; 7
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:05:13
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/10962/164213