Limba instrumental item

Ethnomusicological sound recording made by Cootje van Oven. Limba instrumental item, by one big inkali, one tiny inkali, two ban, metal rattling anklets on the dancing devil and some shouting. The big and tiny inkali are pictured in the photograph. The dancing devil is a Masogo devil and has a sword in his hand. His anklets appear to consist of bent tins strung together. The inkali is a hollow log or cane with length-wise slits. The miniature one here has just one big slit; it is hit with a metal beater while the big one is hit with two soft-headed sticks. The ban is a big wooden cylindrical drum with two drumsticks. One of these two ban is played with just one stick, although in a later piece the ropes on its rib are also hit with a second stick. The other ban has a trough-shaped piece of metal fastened to its ropes; one of its drumskins is beaten with a stick and the piece of metal with a metal beater. Tightening the ban drumskins between pieces is sometimes done near a fire (possible to get even greater tightness when skins and ropes contract in cooling down?). Both ban are roughly the same size 19" deep and 14" in diameter. The big inkali is 34" and 9" in diameter.

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Further Information

  • Type: Sound Recording, Musical instruments
  • Object: Limba instrumental item
  • Materials: No Data / Other
  • Culture Group: Limba
  • Dimensions: No Data
  • Production Date: 1967.01.14
  • Associated Places: Freetown [Place Recorded]
  • Associated People: Cootje van Oven [Sound Recordist]; Herb Clark [Sound Recordist]; Sorie Sesay and Sorie Kamara [Ban players]
  • Museum: Cootje Van Oven Collection
  • Accession Number: CVO:301

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