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Leather Sebe

A leather charm/amulet, or sebe/sebbeh, the Mende and Temne name for charm/amulet. It consists of a flat oblong pendant, encased in leather on one sid...

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Yalunka drumming by two tamban

Ethnomusicological sound recording made by Cootje van Oven. Yalunka drumming by two tamban (see photograph). The tamban is an hourglass-shaped drum wi...

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