cover image: Ibali lokufa kukaTofana nobululu bakhe bosixhenxe, part 3, a continuation of 3S-389 and 390

Ibali lokufa kukaTofana nobululu bakhe bosixhenxe, part 3, a continuation of 3S-389 and 390

Performer: Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, a Gcaleka woman Place: Egadini, 10 am (until about 7 pm) Audience: Varies through the day Notes: Six and one-half hours; total now about eighteen hours. Brief breaks at dgt 359, 422 (tea), 564, 596, 724, 800 on (some tape problems); on tape 41, side 2, dgts 4 (tea), 101, 210. Dgt 370, right hand encircles left wrist and fingers of left hand; dgt 388, zingaka, tip of left forefinger; dgt 409, ichutheza, cuts left forefinger with right; dgt 418, hands raised, move vigorously; dgt 419, senjenje, hands pat thighs rapidly; dgt 420, zenjenje, hands aligned, palm of right hand, back of left hand; dgt 467, holds head; dgts 481-482, kwezi ndawo, touches cheeks; dgt 487, touches chin and cheeks; dgt 492, traces from ear to ear, touches cheeks; dgt 502, back of right hand clapped quietly in left palm; dgt 512, sharpens right forefinger; dgt 533, as if sewing skirt at right waist; dgt 551, arms and hands flying; dgt 561, counts imaginary money; left forefinger on right palm; dgt 624, senjenje, as dgt 420; dgt 628, throws ibhayi; dgt 640, wayiwayi, back of right hand clapped quietly in palm of left hand; dgts 645 to 650, much gesturing about money, placing of money, etc.; dgts 653-654, hands brought together flat, thumbs adjacent to each other, inkazana represented by little fingers of the two hands, umyeni represented by the thumbs; dgt 748, zingakanana, right thumb and forefinger circle, touch: very small; dgt 794, makes contrast: ngaka, hand four feet from ground; ngaka, as dgt 748, dgt 809, silently claps back of right hand in left palm. On tape 41, side 2: dgt 13, apha kum, at her right waist; dgt 99, kwezi ndawo, touches each cheek
nkanga location, gatyana district
Description of object
Reel to reel audiotape
Format of Original
Sound recording
Performer
Nongenile Masithathu Zenani
Published in
United States of America
Series
Selections from the Harold E. Scheub Collection