Subject(s): dance and music / Date: 1986 - Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past

Start Over Subject(s) dance Subject(s) music Date 1986

Description:: Amma Bio of Gbaŋmbɛ Katoo demonstrates the dance associated with sinyeele (balo or xylophone) music played at funerals. Male family head Nyua Kwadwo plays the sinyeele. Lying beneath the partially assembled instrument are calabashes that serve as resonators and produce the instrument's distinctive sound. A small wooden stool lies on its side nearby. Sanwa, 6 August, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17506 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16697
Location(s) Facet:: Sanwa
Subjects:: Family history; Gbaŋmbɛ [Gbangmbe] Katoo
Subjects Facet:: Music; Balo; Funeral customs and rites; Dance; Oral history; Gourd, Calabash; Xylophone; Stools
Creator:: Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl; James Anane
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-08-06
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Sanwa;8.142199, -2.372039
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.142199, -2.372039

Description:: Paramount chief Tolԑԑ Kofi Dwuru III (Omanhene) dances to the rhythms of fontomfrum and atumpan (in Twi) drums at the celebration of the New Yam Festival (Finyjie Lie in Nafaanra) in the Ahenkro palace. He wears a blue-and-white strip woven cloth of the type previously made from locally spun and dyed cotton thread. Two photos. Ahenkro, 28 July, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: New Yam Festival; Palace; Fontomfrom drums; Atumpan drums
Subjects Facet:: Drums (musical instrument); Chiefs; Dance; Music; Rites and ceremonies
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-07-28
Genre:: ;35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.164906, -2.355708
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.164906, -2.355708

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