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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) . Language as given:

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Created: 1966-01-01

Data time period: 1966 to ,