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Language Dagara, Northern Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. EAP078/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP078/1
Title:
Alexis Bekyane Tengan's Collection of Ritual Narration Material of the Dagara Bagr Secret Society
Scope & Content:
The material in this Collection comprises audio recordings, audio visual recordings and images documenting the structured narratives recited within the Bagr ritual context between May 1994-Nov 2002. The ritual narratives solidified over time to consist of two categories of compositions that were ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dagara, Northern and Dagara, Northern"
Date Range:
1994-2002
Extent:
3 series of records consisting of 12 files comprising approximately 6:02:24 hours of audio recordings in wav, mp3, wma and cda formats; 22:43 minutes of audio visual material in Quicktime Movie and DVD-Video formats; and 16 TIFF images.

2. EAP078/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP078/1/1
Title:
Black Bagr Narration
Scope & Content:
This series contains audio recordings, audio visual recordings and digital images of material dating from Nov 1994 relating to the narration and practice of the black bagr. The black bagr for each house or kin group is always one long narrative audition to be spoken continuously by one voice e...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dagara, Northern and Dagara, Northern"
Date Range:
1994
Extent:
3 files comprising approximately 2:52:35 hours of audio recordings in wav, mp3, wma and cda formats; 12:41 minutes of audio visual material in Quicktime Movie and DVD-Video formats; and 4 Tiff images.

3. EAP078/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP078/1/3
Title:
Bagr Exoteric Practices
Scope & Content:
The original material was made from May 1994 to November 2002.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dagara, Northern and Not applicable
Date Range:
1994
Extent:
5 files comprising approximately 29:52 minutes of audio recording in .mav, .mp3, .wma and .cda formats, 10:02 minutes of audio visual recording in Quicktime Movie and DVD-Video formats, and 12 TIFF images