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Garden party at the 1952 Grahamstown Teachers' Training College reunion

  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Class reunions -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Photographs Grahamstown Teachers' Training College (South Africa) -- Photographs
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/25314 , vital:23324 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , PIC/A 2897_063
  • Description: Photograph of the garden party at the 1952 Grahamstown Teachers' Training College reunion , Leila Kerr (Linington) (Donor)
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Gatanga mea Kpiono ya geduele

Gatanga mea kpiono ya geduele

  • Authors: Zande men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Nguru f-cg
  • Language: Zande/Bandiya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167858 , vital:41517 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0123-09
  • Description: This dance is performed at full moon, an old Zande custom. The Borassus palm bells are made from the hard shell of the fruit, one end being sawn off for this purpose. Two short lengths of stick are hung inside the shell and the result is similar in shape and size to cow bells used in many countries of the world. Ths size of these Zande Akiri bells was approximately three and half long and three broad. Zande dance with Bugu slit drum, 3 Ndimu double headed, conical cross laced drums, metal hand bells, and Akiri bells made of the borassus palm with wooden clappers.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Gbada

Gbada

Gbada

Gbada

  • Authors: Bandani and Mayogo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo/Bazo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166519 , vital:41373 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-12
  • Description: The railway has reached this spot far into the interior of the Congo. It is a narrow gauge (about 2' 6") line which runs from Aketi on one of the northern tributaries of the Congo eastwards to the edge of the great tropical Ituri forest, In common with many other parts of Africa local railway trains have struck the imagination and figure frequently in song. It is interesting to note the "Ai-yo-o" of the singer so often heard in guitar songs. Party song with a Kombi and 1 Gbe-Kombi Likembe.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Gbalabalatauw iye hi-he

Gbalabalatauw iye hihe – Work song

Gbo

Gbo

  • Authors: Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo/Bazo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166476 , vital:41368 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-07
  • Description: The Ebi dance has several variations which all follow the general pattern of a circular dance file. The men take the inner circle and the girls the outer, and the drums are outside the ring. The traditional dress for the men is a black or black and red loin cloth made of bark fibre. This is passed between the legs and up over the hips to the waist. It is held in place by a belt and the stiff cloth when properly set gives the impression of a large black tulip in which the mans torso rides on 2 legs. The most attractive feature of these Mangbetu style dance is the bright scarlet headress of the dancers made of tail feathers of the Congo grey parrot. They are a great treasure to these people, feathers representing part of the token payment of a bride's 'lobolo' or bride 'dowry'. They are said to represent a sign of wealth or social position in the tribe. Ebi dance with 1 large wodden cylindrical slit drum, 2 small wooden cylindrical slit drums, 2 wooden pod drums, 2 large conical laced drums, 1 double metal bell.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

German immigration to the Cape, with special reference to (a) the German military settlers of 1857; and (b) the German immigrants of 1858

Gibolo

Gibolo

  • Authors: Mongonika and Zande men and woman , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Nguru f-cg
  • Language: Zande/Bandiya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167813 , vital:41512 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0123-04
  • Description: Mongonika sang the solo phrases to this dance which is called by the same name as himself. He is a clerk at the Chief's office and dressed himself in the traditional barkcloth 'breeches' and beads for the dances. The breeches are made from a five to six foot lenght of barkcloth about 4 feet wide which is drawn up loosely between the legs spread out before and after abd secured by a belt. The result is a rather voluminous dress typical of many tribes in North Eastern Congo. Tuning of Kponingbo:- 664, 568, 469, 392, 360, 332, 284, 248, 196. Mongonika dance with Kponingbo xylophone, 9 notes.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Gitare na Congo

  • Authors: Bakia Pierre , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
  • Language: Zande/Bandiya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167395 , vital:41475 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-08
  • Description: The 'guitar' alluded to in the song is the Kundi. The song is about a blacksmith who beat on his anvil and sang as he did so saying: "My anvil is the real 'guitar' of the Congo. I play it to show how I love my work." It is in this Northern district of the Congo that the art of blacksmithing is unsurpassed. The decorative spears and knives are the pride of the people and feature largely in the list of social and marriage gifts between familes. The singer was given a highly commended prize for this item in the 1952 Osborn Awards for the best African musician of the year. Topical song with Kundi vertical angular harp, 5 strings.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Gitari na Congo

Gloria in Excelsis

Golden wedding group photo, 1952

Golden wedding, 1952, Samuel and Frances Workman

Gotholonga

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