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Start Over Object name Open reel audiotape Collector Leonard Plotnicov Accession number Acc.1717
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-160, described as Side A: Kagoro Music performed on dzundzom (cane zither). Songs: 1. “A Boy and his Girl Friend.” 2. “A Girl Who Conceived at Home.” 3. Instrumental, no singing. Side B: Kagoro Music played by John Aba Atuk on a dzundzom; singing done by several individuals. Songs: 1. Bakauye (A Bushman): the song is about a girl who marries a man from the bush, and it mocks the man who deviates from the patrilocal custom. 2. Wuta (bow): This song is sung for good hunters. 3. native name unkown. “If you Love a Friend You Love his Wife”. 4. Song title not mentioned. 5. Ali Thabta (Clean Ali). Song about “Clean Alie” who slept with someone’s wife, which is prohibited. The zither used by John Kalabs is a Birom version of the Kagoro dzundzom. it has six sets of string clusters instead of the Kagoro five. See the accession envelope for detailed notes by Leonard Plotnicov.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-167, described as Side A: Ijaw Music; recorded in Opobo Town; Various Groups performing using flutes, stick clappers, drums, rattles, and double gongs. Side B: Tiv Music; recorded at Gboko. This Tiv music was recorded on a number of tapes of which 24-167 contains the first part. Part 2 is on tape 24-168, part 3 on 24-168, part 4 and 5 are on tape 24-163. See accession card for list of songs.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-168, described as Tiv Music; recorded at Gboko. This is part 2 and 3 of 5 parts. See the card for 244-167. All the songs of the fife parts are listed on the reverse side of the card.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-165, described as Tape: Sides A and B: Katab music. Singers and Players: Five Katam men and boys and one Kagoro man. The Kagoro man is John Aba Atuk who hums and sometimes plays the drum and the gurmi. Two boys: both sang and one played the kuntigi. Three men: one played the dzindzom, one couldn’t play anything and one sometimes beat the drum (kalangu), and sometimes struck a beer bottle with the bottle opener. Songs: Side A: (1) Song about the town of Kanay which suffered from food shortages in 1956. (2) Song about beautiful girl who had magic worked against her. (3) A song welcoming Queen Elizabeth on her visit to Nigeria. Side B: (4) Story of a girl named Ladi and her problems with a man who wanted to sleep with her but wouldn’t marry her. (5) Song about two girls who are attending school. They try to find young boys with money who will pay their way to school. The rest of the song concerns the way they got the money and what ultimately happened to them. (6) Conversation regarding the necessity of doing things the way “our forefathers did.” “Everything we do today...is nothing.” (7) Song entitled “Let’s go home.” A farewell song. For specific details see Plotnicov’s notes in the accession envelope.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-159, described as Side A: Calabar Youths Orchestra on the Second Anniversary Celebrations of the Uyo District Union. The instrumental music was played on four square-like drums (Ekomo), and a rattle of woven rattan. Side B: Songs performed by a group of seven (mixed men and women) from Onitsha Province, south of Onitsha Town. The group calls themselves the Egwu Amalabu Oyo. Instruments used: 1 block, 1 gong, 1 ceramic jar struck with the palms of the hand over the mouth, and 3 gours which are made to rattle by a net of beads covering on each. Songs: 1. Ilolo Ejum Obi (My heart is Full of Trouble). 2. Egwa Amalabu Oyo: Loving Dance- an old song slightly modified). 3. Ududu Kene Ndegu (My Instruments are Greeting the Dancers). 4. Egwu Amala Elu Noma (Farewell Song).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-158, described as Calabar Youths Orchestra. Sides A and B: Efik music; Song 1: Song sung on happy occasions. Song 2: Song of the Ogbon Secret Society (for men only). Song 3: Song of war. Song 4: Song with proverbial connotations. The orchestra (itembe) uses two instruments: drums (ekomah), and a rattle of calabash core covered with woven vines (uyagha(?) nsak). See accession envelope for Leonard Plotnicov’s notes regarding specific details.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-161, described as Tape. Biron Music. Side A: Instrumental music played on a “kundung” or “yom kwo” (a xylophone played by two men). Selection: Music is the type that can be heard in local pagan bars. The words and phrases are spontaneous improvisations and have no logical connection with one another. Side B: Birom Music, “yom kwo music”, “mandyang” ceremony. For specific details see the accesion envelope for Leonard Plotnicov’s notes.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-163, described as Tape. Tiv Music. This is part 4 and 5 of the five parts. See the card file for 24-167, all the songs of the five parts are listed on the reverse side of the card. Also see the accession envelope for detailed information of Leonard Plotnicov’s notes.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-166, described as Tape: Side A: Ibibio Music. Eket Ibibio: Songs: (1a) Eka Ekong (A dance for chiefs.) (1b) “Woman’s Dance”. (2) Udo Edem (Song associated with a puppet play; encouraging the dancers) (3) Ekpo Ekbara (A song of a chronic bachelor and spinster who criticizes married life) Uyo Ibibio Songs: (1) Song of the Ekong or Offiong type; only played by men initiated into the Idiong Society. (2) Eka Ekong; similar to the song from Mkpanek. Side B: (1) Oku; (2-5) Ijaw; (6) Ijaw: this is about juju (owu); (7) Ijaw; (8) Umakebu (Itaja Village): words have no meaning; (9) Same as 8 with words: “We salute you Olokoro People”; (10, 12) Amezi village girls; (11-12) unidentified; (14-17) Boy Maskers (Abama Village); (19) Umuha Jata (Dance of the teenagers); (20) This song is about enjoying Christmas; (21) Song translated: “Last Month ‘so-and-so’ went to Lagos.” “When a Policeman has a Baby, it becomes a Rough Baby.”

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