Open reel audiotape

Museum number:
24-166
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21240000166
Accession number:
Acc.1717
Description:
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.”
Donor:
Leonard Plotnicov and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria
Culture or time period:
Ibibio
Collector:
Leonard Plotnicov
Collection date:
1961
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Audio reel tapes
Function:
7.2 Sound Communication
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Audio recordings
Comment:
two-sided tape
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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.”Documentation associated with 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.”Documentation associated with 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.”Documentation associated with 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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