This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.

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.

This content was machine-translated
Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

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

  • Production
    when
    1908-1909
    where
    Bagam, Bali, Bamenda
    Africa
    Cameroon
    who
    Bafotsio, Bali, Bamessong, Bamum, Bapinyi, Wadmea
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Berlin Phonogram Archive Berlin Phonogram Archive

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
This content was machine-translated
Version: 2.5 / 7.5