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D160_5-047
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Title Mambu Flute Music - effects (Flute Music Tape 1)
Description Loose insert (2) Recording Sheet - Australian Broadcasting Commission. Mambu - Bamboo Flutes of Territory of Papua New Guinea.CUT 1: Tilo-tilo: The courting flute of the Tolai people CUT 2: Drone pipes: used in the Wanyan Fertility cycle and as voice of the Tambaran - Kuminibus and heligum (?) villages. Maprik sub-district.CUT 3: Ditto with kinadu (?) CUT 4: Aibom Flutes (the so-called Talking Flutes of the Mid Sepik) Eight flutes more or less simultaniously recount ancestor stories. CUT 5 Aiharu or Narma flutes of the Chimbu and Eastern Highlands. Strictly Tambu (?). Alleged to be the voice of a bird. Used in fertility rites (?), funery rites etc. CUT 6: Morobe flute - playing magical incantationto exorcise ancestor spirit from a tree before felling it. CUT 6A: Another example of the Aibom flutes (Mid Sepik) with skin drum. CUT 7: Amele Giant drone pipes - Madang district. Longest flutes in New Guinea CUT 8: Playabout flutes - Chimbu sub district - a game. Youths imitate trditional songs. Elders guess which song. CUT 9 / 10/11: Flutes with garamut choir. A set of feasting songs. a) Invitation to the feast b) Entra (?)... white people settle down c)Feast song

Updated Collection URL: http://archivesonline.uow.edu.au/nodes/view/665
Updated Item URL: http://archivesonline.uow.edu.au/nodes/view/3201
(Steven Gagau, March 2018)

Origination date 1966-01-01
Origination date free form 1949-1966
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URL http://archivesonline.uow.edu.au/nodes/view/3201
Collector
Susan Cochrane
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Papua New Guinea - PG
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English - eng
Undetermined language - und
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English - eng
Undetermined language - und
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Originating university University of Wollongong
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Data Categories instrumental music
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
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DOI 10.4225/72/56F00CF3BDC09
Cite as Susan Cochrane (collector), 1966. Mambu Flute Music - effects (Flute Music Tape 1). D160_5-047 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56F00CF3BDC09
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Collection Information
Collection ID D160_5
Collection title Audio and songs from Papua New Guinea and Samoa
Description Audio recordings from Papua New Guinea and Samoa. Areas and languages include Mekeo, Manus, Motu, Sepik, Mila Mila, Manam, Mambu also Pidgin and Samoan. Data includes songs, radio recordings, music, and interviews.
Files held in University of Wollongong Archives: http://archivesonline.uow.edu.au/nodes/view/665
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
Samoa - WS
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Languages
English - eng
Fore - for
Motu, Hiri - hmo
Iwam, Sepik - iws
Kilivila - kij
Mekeo - mek
Motu - meu
Manam - mva
Samoan - smo
Tok Pisin - tpi
Multiple languages - mul
Undetermined language - und
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Data access narrative "Access Conditions: Available for reference. Contact University of Wollongong Archives in advance to arrange access""Access Conditions: Available for reference. Contact University of Wollongong Archives in advance to arrange access"
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