Vigwada mucenyele navyo

Title: Vigwada mucenyele navyo
Performer / Recordist: Tumbuka women with men in the background; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Songs, Tumbuka; Tumbuka (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: Be careful of cassava leaves, do not eat them, my man, or ypu will die." Certain kinds of cassava roots are poisonous containing prussic acid until soaked in water or otherwise treated. Presumably the leaves also are poisonous. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tumbuka
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Malawi Kasungu
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR188; 12
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:26
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/10962/185150