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Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture

TANZANIA COLLECTIONS
IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE

Compiled by: Reinhardt Schuhmann, Kenneth Schweitzer, and Jud Wellington
Series Editor: Ann Hoog


For additional information about Archive of Folk Culture collections, contact the Folklife Reading Room. To request copies, see our webpages regarding audio materials and photographic materials. Please refer to the AFC and/or AFS numbers when requesting information. All indications of time duration listed in this finding aid are estimates.

AFS 12,079: R.F. Shaeffer / African Songs Recorded in Nuamupa, Tanzania (Tanganyika)
One 7-inch tape of African songs sung in Swahili: a young boy with guitar and scraping a coin on a bottle. Recorded in Namupa, Tanganyika, October 16, 1963 by the son of Rudolph F. Schaefer. The collection includes 3 pages of correspondence and notes. (15 minutes)

AFC 2003/027: Pete and Toshi Seeger Film Collection
Approximately 700 film and audio elements relating to Pete and Toshi Seeger's filmmaking from 1955-1965 at various locations in: Angola, Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, Somoa, Sweden, Tanzania, Trinidad, Ukraine, and the United States. In the United States, locations include Beacon, New York; Circle Pines, Michigan; Hamilton, Ohio; Huntsville, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Madison, Wisconsin; New York, New York; Newport, Rhode Island; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Washington, D.C., among others. The collection includes 3 bamboo flutes.

 

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