Doc.382, 'Nose flute'

Abstract

Audio recording of a nose flute played by Josefa Tale of Namata, Tailevu, recorded in Suva on September 1957. Arranged recording, 9 min 49 seconds. Fijian music, songs and dances, recorded by George Kingsley Roth in Fiji in the 1950s. Most of the material is original and was recorded in the field or at the studio of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission Suva. Some tracks are copies of recordings made by the Fiji Broadcasting Commission or the BBC.