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Start Over Object class Musical instruments Collection place British West Africa (historic) Function 7.2 Sound Communication
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Audio recording, accession number 24-3284, described as Reel 13: Obatala praises, songs using dundun Reel 14: Demonstration of dundun drums; Songs for Egun
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Audio recording, accession number 24-3282, described as Drums of the Yoruba of Nigeria. Tape speed: 3 3/4 ips.
Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 5-6263a, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 5-6264, described as Two-headed wooden hourglass "talking drum" with rawhide carrying strap attached; h. 26.4 cm.; dia. 16.7 cm.
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 24-146, described as Tape. Drums of the Yoruba.
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 24-164, described as Side A: Birom Music; Songs: (1) This song tells of ancestors and their deeds. Instruments: drum and voice. (2) A song for threshing acha. (3) Planting acha song. A ceremonial song for the ceremonial planting of the first acha. (4) Another acha threshing song. These songs are a medium of gossip and ridicule; a measure of social control. (5) Ancient song about a chit (spirit). Instruments: a dried cactus with notches cut into it and rubbed with a stick. Also used is the yom shit (a zither). (6) Song of a ceremony no longer performed, associated with the fertility of women and land and marriage. Side B: Igigwe music; The instruments are drums of various sizes, rattles of seeds in grass woven pods which are tied to the dancers legs, and one-note fifes, which give an organ-like sound because the players of one orchestra have fifes of different pitches.
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 24-159, 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).

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