Open reel audiotape

Museum number:
24-158
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21240000158
Accession number:
Acc.1717
Description:
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.
Donor:
Leonard Plotnicov and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Jos (Nigeria)
Collector:
Leonard Plotnicov
Collection date:
1961
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Audio reel tapes and Drums (membranophones)
Function:
7.2 Sound Communication
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Audio recordings
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.

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