Open reel audiotape

Museum number:
24-162
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21240000162
Accession number:
Acc.1717
Description:
Tape. Side A: Birom Music. There are 12 selections, all are instrumental. Drums, flutes and stringed instruments. Side B: Hausa Music. 5 selections: 1-instrumental, wind instruments, flute solo etc. 2-same as 1. 3-singing to drum and string instruments. 4-same as 3. 5-primarily string instruments with singing. For specific details see the accession envelope for Leonard Plotnicov’s notes.
Donor:
Leonard Plotnicov and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria
Culture or time period:
Birom and Hausa
Collector:
Hamo Sassoon
Collection date:
1961
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Audio reel tapes, Drums (membranophones), and Flutes (aerophones)
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 24-162, described as Tape. Side A: Birom Music. There are 12 selections, all are instrumental. Drums, flutes and stringed instruments. Side B: Hausa Music. 5 selections: 1-instrumental, wind instruments, flute solo etc. 2-same as 1. 3-singing to drum and string instruments. 4-same as 3. 5-primarily string instruments with singing. For specific details see the accession envelope for Leonard Plotnicov’s notes.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Open reel audiotape, accession number 24-162, described as Tape. Side A: Birom Music. There are 12 selections, all are instrumental. Drums, flutes and stringed instruments. Side B: Hausa Music. 5 selections: 1-instrumental, wind instruments, flute solo etc. 2-same as 1. 3-singing to drum and string instruments. 4-same as 3. 5-primarily string instruments with singing. For specific details see the accession envelope for Leonard Plotnicov’s notes.

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