Umququmbelo: dance song [of the Christian Zulus] Sung by several girls, handwritten protocol

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Umququmbelo: dance song [of the Christian Zulus] Sung by several girls, handwritten protocol

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[Source - Carolyn Hamilton for FHYA, 2019, using ÖAW materials: Mayr’s note-taking was sporadic. In his protocols he occasionally gives very few details about some informants, while with others he is quite meticulous. Usually, informants without a first or family name, or informants with names that sound foreign to us, such as Nogwaja, Pakati, Tshingwayo, and Nondhleko, reveal that the person was not a converted Christian, but still a traditional Zulu in the sense that the person adhered to long-established Zulu custom; European-style names such as Frida Kunene and Maria Gertrud(e) Mkize, on the other hand, indicate that these people were Christians. Baptisms were considered successes in the missionary's attempt to "win souls" for the church priorities for the mission. Thus, the baptism registers give some details about those who had decided to change their religion. Typically, when a person was baptised, he or she would take a European name. These names were usually those of European patrons: for example, Fr. Mayr baptised the five-week-old Msomi, Maria Coudenhove, which was the name of the newborn girl's European sponsor. Mlambo, a young man, received the name of his "uncle" or European patron, Franz Rohrmoser (cf. Gütl 2004: 77, 89, 128). The age of the people to be baptised varied from newborn children to elderly people; since most of the latter did not know their birthdays, Mayr was only able to take down estimates of their age into his register (cf. Gütl 2004: 99-100).]

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Umququmbelo: dance song [of the Christian Zulus] Sung by several girls, handwritten protocol

[ Source of title : FHYA using ÖAW materials ]

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Ph 1757, OEAW PHA CD 25/1:6

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Attributions and conjectures [Source - The Collection of Father Franz Mayr Zulu Recordings 1908, CD booklet, 2006: For some of his recordings, Father Franz Mayr limited his notes on the interlocutors to "grown up (Zulu) girls".]

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Event Actor Event Type Event Date Event Description
Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA) Online curation 2016 -
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) Publication 2006
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) Custody [between c.1908 - 1913] -
Reverend Father Franz Mayr Collection c.1908
No attribution Making c.1908
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