DRUMS OF THE WORLD
New Guinea
Motu Area drum New Guinea
Motu Area drum New Guinea / Trommel / Tambour / Neuguinea
The Motu people inhabited the southern coastal and immediate inland areas of New Guinea. They traditionally believed that their well-being depended on the continued support of their ancestral spirits.
Among the Port Moresby natives the boys at initiation have only one serious duty, which is for each to make his drum. They are taboo, and live in the forest until the drums are completed ; this may be a week or a month.
see: Crawley, A.E. - Dress, drinks, and drums; further studies of savages and sex. 1931
Bibliography:
Ammann Raymond (1997) : Le rythme Kanak, Cahiers de musiques traditionnelles.
Bateson Gregory (1936) : Music in New Guinea. The Eagle 48.
Bogner Piet (1984) : Traditionelle Musikinstrumente aus Neuguinea. München, Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Naturvölker.
Chauvet, Stephen (1930) : Les arts indigènes en Nouvelle-Guinée.
Collaer, Paul (1965) : Musikgeschichte in Bildern – Ozeanien. Musikethnologie1. Leipzig.
Barry Craig (Editor) (2011) : Living Spirits with Fixed Abodes - University of Hawai'i Press.
Fischer, Hans (1958) : Schallgeräte in Ozeanien. Sound-producing instruments in Oceania.
Friede, J. (2005) : New Guinea Art - Masterpieces of the Jolika Collection from Marcia and John Friede.
Gourlay Kenneth (1975) : Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society.
Graf, Walter (1950) : Die musikwissenschaftlichen Phonogramme Rudolf Pöchs von der Nordküste Neuguineas.
Kelm, Heinz (1966) : Kunst vom Sepik.
Kunst Jaap (1931) : A Study on Papua Music.
Martinez-Jacquet, Elena; : Invocando a los espíritus : instrumentos musicales de Indonesia y Oceanía en la colección Helena Folch.
Neuhauss Richard (1911) : Deutsch-Neu-Guinea. Vol. I-III, Berlin, Reimer.
Niles Don (2006) : Drums, in P. Peltier and F. Morin (eds), Shadows of New Guinea, Art from the Great Island of Oceania in the Barbier-Mueller Collections.
Peltier Philippe, Markus Schindlbeck et Christian Kaufmann (éds), (2015) : Sepik. Arts de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée, Paris, Skira, Musée Du Quai Branly.
Reche Otto (1913) : Der Kaiserin Augusta Fluss, in Georg Thilenius (ed.), Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910
Spearritt Gordon (1982) : The Pairing of Musicians and Instruments in Iatmul Society, Yearbook for Traditional Music 14.
Wirz Paul (1959) : Kunst und Kult des Sepik-Gebietes (Neu-Guinea) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung einer daselbst in den Jahren 1950 und 1953 erworbenen Sammlung, Amsterdam, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen Amsterdam.
The Motu people inhabited the southern coastal and immediate inland areas of New Guinea. They traditionally believed that their well-being depended on the continued support of their ancestral spirits.
Among the Port Moresby natives the boys at initiation have only one serious duty, which is for each to make his drum. They are taboo, and live in the forest until the drums are completed ; this may be a week or a month.
see: Crawley, A.E. - Dress, drinks, and drums; further studies of savages and sex. 1931
Bibliography:
Ammann Raymond (1997) : Le rythme Kanak, Cahiers de musiques traditionnelles.
Bateson Gregory (1936) : Music in New Guinea. The Eagle 48.
Bogner Piet (1984) : Traditionelle Musikinstrumente aus Neuguinea. München, Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Naturvölker.
Chauvet, Stephen (1930) : Les arts indigènes en Nouvelle-Guinée.
Collaer, Paul (1965) : Musikgeschichte in Bildern – Ozeanien. Musikethnologie1. Leipzig.
Barry Craig (Editor) (2011) : Living Spirits with Fixed Abodes - University of Hawai'i Press.
Fischer, Hans (1958) : Schallgeräte in Ozeanien. Sound-producing instruments in Oceania.
Friede, J. (2005) : New Guinea Art - Masterpieces of the Jolika Collection from Marcia and John Friede.
Gourlay Kenneth (1975) : Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society.
Graf, Walter (1950) : Die musikwissenschaftlichen Phonogramme Rudolf Pöchs von der Nordküste Neuguineas.
Kelm, Heinz (1966) : Kunst vom Sepik.
Kunst Jaap (1931) : A Study on Papua Music.
Martinez-Jacquet, Elena; : Invocando a los espíritus : instrumentos musicales de Indonesia y Oceanía en la colección Helena Folch.
Neuhauss Richard (1911) : Deutsch-Neu-Guinea. Vol. I-III, Berlin, Reimer.
Niles Don (2006) : Drums, in P. Peltier and F. Morin (eds), Shadows of New Guinea, Art from the Great Island of Oceania in the Barbier-Mueller Collections.
Peltier Philippe, Markus Schindlbeck et Christian Kaufmann (éds), (2015) : Sepik. Arts de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée, Paris, Skira, Musée Du Quai Branly.
Reche Otto (1913) : Der Kaiserin Augusta Fluss, in Georg Thilenius (ed.), Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910
Spearritt Gordon (1982) : The Pairing of Musicians and Instruments in Iatmul Society, Yearbook for Traditional Music 14.
Wirz Paul (1959) : Kunst und Kult des Sepik-Gebietes (Neu-Guinea) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung einer daselbst in den Jahren 1950 und 1953 erworbenen Sammlung, Amsterdam, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen Amsterdam.