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Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Livingstonia f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134082 , vital:37070 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-08
Description: This is one of the songs sung when a girl is being instructed in her domestic and wifely duties by one of the elder women of the village.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Livingstonia f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134073 , vital:37068 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-07
Description: The raft rattles are made from sections of stout dried grass stalks with beans or other seeds inside. They are held between the palms of the hands and swung to and fro, the thumbs or her fingers hitting the rattles at the end of the swing.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Ruben Tancard Mbuluwundi , Tumbuka/Henga men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1952
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Livingstonia f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185344 , vital:44367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-11
Description: "If people are jealous of you in a village because of your success, your fowls and your cattle, your wives and your children, then you should get up and go to another village and not live among jealous people any more." Topical song
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1952

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