Printed text on verso reads: "2 - Chateau Somba / Office du Tourisme du Dahomey / Reproduction interdite / Photo Veritable."
Address on verso reads: "Rene Bravmann c/o Mission Protestante B.P. 128 Bobo-Dionlasso, RHV."
Local Numbers:
EEPA DM-07-11
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
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Additional printed text on verso reads: "Collection G. Labitte; 35, rue Jules Ferry, Dakar; Reproduction interdite."
Local Numbers:
EEPA DM-20-14
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
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Additional printed text on verso reads: "Edition Suzanne Toubon - Marseille / Tous droits de reproduction réservés."
Local Numbers:
EEPA DM-20-17
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
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Three images on recto depicting tata sombas, with people visible. Printed text on recto reads: "Tata Somba / Visitez le Nord-Benin." Logo: "SAPEC" on recto.
Verso labeled with additional accession number: A1992-02-029.
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108 The Red Mountain Ash / Rosa Jouk, Lioudmilla Tchijouk, Maria Dorodko. Ukrainian language.
109 Round: Spring Dance / Tatiana Orlenin, Nadeshda Shogol.
110 Slow melody from Thrace / Ianka Rupkina. Bulgarian language.
111 Zauerl (sung in the Inn) / Ernst Pfa.ndler.
112 Three katajjait from Baffin Land / Elijah Pudloo Mageeta, Quanak Martha Meekeega, Napache Samaejuk Pootogook, Napache Etidloie Toonoo.
113 Roiroa (women's song).
114 Buyeni: Kamwana kamwani (Somebody's little child)/ Kaya wiyo / Chewa dialect.
115 Nagara- Music of the Blue Nile Province / Lyre,Gourd.
116 Dikoboda sombe (Hut song).
117 Ulepa.
118 Ye zame andero (war chant).
119 Song for grinding millet.
Local Numbers:
UN-COMM-CD-08102-9
UNESCO.8104
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
Paris, France Audivis 1972
General:
Commercial
Compact disc. Compilation of songs recorded worldwide, sung in their original languages. Previously released. Program notes in English and French (15 p.) inserted in container.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Listening only. No Duplication Allowed.
Collection Rights:
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Cuba: Mi tierra es asi (3:53) -- Turkmenistan: Gu.mmu.r-gu.mmu.rlendi (4:41) -- Central African Republic (2:55) -- Vanuatu: Kaimata (1:49) -- China: Huan lo ts'ao yuan (3:50) -- Turkey: Yulcelerden seyreyled im dostun izini (2:28) -- China: Liushui (4:10) -- Bulgaria: Harvest song (3:10) -- Byelorussia: Harvest song (:59) -- Bahrain: Bahri (3:42) -- Cameroon: The water drum (1:26) -- Viet nam: Phong xuy trich lieru (4:04) -- Mongolia: view over the Kherelen River (2:54) -- Portugal: Macelada (1:58) -- Benin: Musotie, harvest dance (3:07) -- Algeria: song for the insemination of the date palm (1:58) -- Cameroon: Music for the nganga dance (2:52) -- France: sur le pont d'Auron (3:21) -- Japan: Aiolos (2:39).
Track Information:
101 Mi tierra es asi / Cucalambe Ensemble. Spanish language.
Compact disc. Compilation of songs recorded worldwide, sung in their original languages. Previously released. Program notes in English and French (14 p.) inserted in container
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Listening only. No Duplication Allowed.
Collection Rights:
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Bariba music. Praise song for hunters (3:52) --Music played when setting out for a hunt (2:26) --Music in praise of Oru Suru (5:53) --Sambani, music for dancing (2:40) --Taru, music for dancing (1:47) --"A poor man has no country" (5:09). -- Somba music. Dinaba, myth of the origins (6:04) --Song for grinding millet (5:12) --Musotie, harvest dance (3:08) -- Funeral lament (2:06) --Song to carry the corpse (2:05) --Song for grinding karite nuts (2:26).
Track Information:
101 Bariba music. Praise song for hunters / Bariba language.
102 Music played when setting out for a hunt / Bariba language.
103 Music in praise of Oru Suru / Bariba language.
104 Sambani, music for dancing / Bariba language.
105 Taru, music for dancing / Bariba language.
106 "A poor man has no country" / Bariba language.
107 Somba music. Dinaba, myth of the origins / Somba language.
108 Song for grinding millet / Somba language.
109 Musotie, harvest dance / Somba language.
110 Funeral lament / Somba language.
111 Song to carry the corpse / Somba language.
112 Song for grinding karite nuts / Somba language.
Local Numbers:
UNESCO.8057
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
Paris, France Audivis 1976
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Benin.
General:
Commercial
Songs and instrumental music. Compact disc. Originally released as analog disc, 1976. Notes in French and English, with translations of the songs in the same languages (11 p.) inserted in container. Traditional and ritual songs, narrative, and dance music for royal ceremonies and daily life ; includes some griot performance.
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Restrictions on access. SI Permission.
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The collection contains 527 color 35mm slides taken by Ivan Livingstone in West Africa (primarily the Republic of Benin but also in Ghana, Nigeria and Togo) circa 1972-1973. Images depict market scenes, Egúngún and Ifa ceremonies, religious ceremonies of the Celestial Church of Christ, funeral processions, decoration and ornament, clothing and dress, and musicians. There are also several images of the palace of the Oni of Ife. Culture groups represented in the collection include the Yoruba, Ifè, Oyo, Somba, Fon,Dan and Fula peoples.
Arrangement note:
Arranged by original photographer's series and classified by EEPA subject headings.
Biographical/Historical note:
Ivan Livingstone is an Afro-Canadian scholar and photographer of Jamaican and Guianese descent. He was raised in Verdun, a working-class suburb of Montreal. Livingstone has taught at McGill University in Montreal, Laval University in Quebec City, and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Benin.
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Printed text on verso reads: "990 - Dahomey / Natitingou - Cases Somba." Translated caption reads: [Dahomey / Natitingou - Somba Home], Caption refers to buldings known as tata somba depicted on recto.
Publisher's logo on recto: "Normand."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Editions d'art Normand - B.P. 700 Abidjan / S.I.R.A. / Chrome."
Local Numbers:
EEPA DM-07-03
EEPA DM 1996-002-0001
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Numbering Peculiarities Note:
Verso labeled with former accession number format: A1996-2-1.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
For study purposes only. Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
