Nokala (The crab)
- Khotso and Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Khotso and Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136515 , vital:37386 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-09
- Description: The women in this group all wore green cotton dresses and green head cloths. They had strands of beads round their necks worked in stripes of green, yellow, white and blue. Khotso said he had taken this colour scheme from the Vierkleur. The men, in addition to this, wore a lavish number of strings of "lucky beans" or seeds, of a pearl-grey colour. These are exclusively worn by the Izangoma. Divination song with clapping and 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Khotso and Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136515 , vital:37386 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-09
- Description: The women in this group all wore green cotton dresses and green head cloths. They had strands of beads round their necks worked in stripes of green, yellow, white and blue. Khotso said he had taken this colour scheme from the Vierkleur. The men, in addition to this, wore a lavish number of strings of "lucky beans" or seeds, of a pearl-grey colour. These are exclusively worn by the Izangoma. Divination song with clapping and 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Yeapinalekosi (Where does this Chief belong)
- Khotso and Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Khotso and Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136506 , vital:37385 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-08
- Description: "Yeapinalekosi? Yeye Lizilamapono." "Where does this Chief belong? He is of the country of the Mpondos." Khotso was in charge of this group of men and women and he is regarded as the most important of the local Izangoma, or herbalists in the Transkei. He bought them all down from Kokstad for the purpose. Divination song with clapping and 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Khotso and Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136506 , vital:37385 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-08
- Description: "Yeapinalekosi? Yeye Lizilamapono." "Where does this Chief belong? He is of the country of the Mpondos." Khotso was in charge of this group of men and women and he is regarded as the most important of the local Izangoma, or herbalists in the Transkei. He bought them all down from Kokstad for the purpose. Divination song with clapping and 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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