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Anchorman Cameroon

The roller collection consists of 55 recordings of traditional songs and instrumental music, some of which are available as original rollers, some as Galvanos and as old copies.Further documents (files, correspondence) and ethnographica are in the Ethnological Museum Berlin.Roller no. 54 is labelled as no. 53, roller no. 53 is missing according to the original documentation.Rolls nos. 51, 22, 39 were included in the demonstration collection of Erich Moritz von Hornbostel as nos. 80 - 82.Roll no. 39 is published on the following LP: The Demonstration Collection of E.M. von Hornbostel and the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv / Die Demonstrationssammlung von E.M. von Hornbostel und dem Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv. Indiana University, Ethnomusicological Series. Georg List, Editor. Ethnic Folkways Library, New York 1963.reel no. 35 is published on the following CD: Music! 100 Years of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv 1900-2000, ed. by Artur Simon & Ulrich Wegner. Museum Collection Berlin, Wergo 2000.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Bafotsio, Bali, Bamessong, Bamum, Bapinyi, Wadmea
Object type
Audio
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII WS 2

Provenance and sources

when
1908-1909
where
Bagam, Bali, Bamenda
Africa [Kontinent]
Cameroon [Region]
who
Bafotsio, Bali, Bamessong, Bamum, Bapinyi, Wadmea

who
Ankermann, Bernhard - Collectors

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