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EAP078/1
- Record Id:
- 032-000007547
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000007547
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x000028
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- 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 only spoken sequentially in ritual context. The two categories were the black bagr and the white bagr narrative compositions. The black bagr was one long narrative audition (the longest oral narrative composition ever to be identified in Africa and spoken continuously by one voice). The white bagr narration was further sub-divided into four narrative sessions, namely, the white bagr of black beans, the white bagr of white beans, the white bagr of bambara beans and the white bagr dance. These rituals are performed out of public view in the large homesteads of the few remaining Dagara kin members not yet touched by Catholicism or modern education. The original material is a combination of audio cassettes, VHS audio-video mini tapes and photographs.
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Ritual Narratives of Bagr Secret Society
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-000007547", "parent" : "#", "text" : "EAP078/1: Alexis Bekyane Tengan's Collection of Ritual Narration Material of the Dagara Bagr Secret Society" },{ "id" : "036-000007548", "parent" : "032-000007547", "text" : "EAP078/1/1: Black Bagr Narration" },{ "id" : "040-000007549", "parent" : "036-000007548", "text" : "EAP078/1/1/1: Black Bagr Narration (audio)" },{ "id" : "040-000007550", "parent" : "036-000007548", "text" : "EAP078/1/1/2: Black Bagr Narration in Seclusion (audio visual)" },{ "id" : "040-000007551", "parent" : "036-000007548", "text" : "EAP078/1/1/3: Bagr Rites Images: Narration in Seclusion" },{ "id" : "041-000007552", "parent" : "040-000007551", "text" : "EAP078/1/1/3/1: Bagr Narrator" },{ "id" : "041-000007553", "parent" : "040-000007551", "text" : "EAP078/1/1/3/2: Bagr Society in Narration" },{ "id" : "041-000007554", "parent" : "040-000007551", "text" : "EAP078/1/1/3/3: Bagr Xylophonist and Narrator" },{ "id" : "041-000007555", "parent" : "040-000007551", "text" : "EAP078/1/1/3/4: Recording of Bagr Narration" },{ "id" : "036-000007556", "parent" : "032-000007547", "text" : "EAP078/1/2: White Bagr Narration" },{ "id" : "040-000007557", "parent" : "036-000007556", "text" : "EAP078/1/2/1: White Bagr of Black Beans Narration, Version 01" },{ "id" : "040-000007558", "parent" : "036-000007556", "text" : "EAP078/1/2/2: White Bagr of Black Beans Narration, Version 02" },{ "id" : "040-000007559", "parent" : "036-000007556", "text" : "EAP078/1/2/3: White Bagr of White Beans Narration" },{ "id" : "040-000007560", "parent" : "036-000007556", "text" : "EAP078/1/2/4: White Bagr of Bambara Beans Narration" },{ "id" : "036-000007561", "parent" : "032-000007547", "text" : "EAP078/1/3: Bagr Exoteric Practices" },{ "id" : "040-000007562", "parent" : "036-000007561", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/1: White Bagr of Festive Music and Dance" },{ "id" : "040-000007563", "parent" : "036-000007561", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/2: Bagr Exoteric Dancing" },{ "id" : "040-000007564", "parent" : "036-000007561", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/3: Bagr Rites Images: Bagr Divination in Seclusion" },{ "id" : "041-000007565", "parent" : "040-000007564", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/3/1: Bagr Diviner Inspecting Cowries and Stones" },{ "id" : "041-000007566", "parent" : "040-000007564", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/3/2: Opening the Diviner's Bag" },{ "id" : "041-000007567", "parent" : "040-000007564", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/3/3: The Stick Divination" },{ "id" : "041-000007568", "parent" : "040-000007564", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/3/4: Throwing the Cowries as Divination" },{ "id" : "040-000007569", "parent" : "036-000007561", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/4: Bagr Rites Images: Bagr Exoteric House Rituals" },{ "id" : "041-000007570", "parent" : "040-000007569", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/4/1: Bagr Ritual Around the House 01" },{ "id" : "041-000007571", "parent" : "040-000007569", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/4/2: Bagr Ritual Around the House 02" },{ "id" : "041-000007572", "parent" : "040-000007569", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/4/3: Bagr Ritual In Front of the House Front Yard" },{ "id" : "041-000007573", "parent" : "040-000007569", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/4/4: Bagr Ritual on the Roof Terrace" },{ "id" : "040-000007574", "parent" : "036-000007561", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/5: Bagr Rites Images: Bagr Sacrifice at the Earth Shrine" },{ "id" : "041-000007575", "parent" : "040-000007574", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/5/1: Bagr Communal Sacrifice at the Earth Shrine 01" },{ "id" : "041-000007576", "parent" : "040-000007574", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/5/2: Bagr Communal Sacrifice at the Earth Shrine 02" },{ "id" : "041-000007577", "parent" : "040-000007574", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/5/3: Bagr Communal Sacrifice at the Earth Shrine 03" },{ "id" : "041-000007578", "parent" : "040-000007574", "text" : "EAP078/1/3/5/4: Bagr Communal Sacrifice at the Earth Shrine 04" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000007547
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- EAP078/1/1 : Black Bagr Narration
EAP078/1/2 : White Bagr Narration
EAP078/1/3 : Bagr Exoteric Practices
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- 032-000007547
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP078/1
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- 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.
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/collection/EAP078-1
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Dagara, Northern
Dagara, Northern" - Scripts:
- Not Applicable
- Start Date:
- 1994
- End Date:
- 2002
- Date Range:
- 1994-2002
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Access for research purposes only. Not to be reproduced without written permission from Dr Alexis Tengan.
- Physical Characteristics:
- Material is in wav, mp3, wma, cda, Quicktime Movie, DVD Video and TIFF formats.
- Custodial History:
- Records in this Collection were created as part of the Project: EAP078 Ritual Narratives of Bagr Secret Society: Audio, Video and Digital Preservation of Ancient Myths from the Dagara of Northern Ghana.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Received from Dr Alexis Bekyane Tengan, July 2007 (Accession Record EAP078).
- Arrangement:
- The material in this Collection has been arranged into series by the Project.
- Administrative Context:
- EAP078 was funded by the Endangered Archives Programme. It created digital copies of records created and collected by Dr Alexis Tengan. Dr Alexis Tengan recorded the Dagara bagr mythical narration material during previous fieldwork as an independent scholar. In doing so these recordings are the longest oral compositions to have come out of sub-Saharan African cultural history and the only recordings of their kind to have been made during live ritual.
- Information About Copies:
- Digital copies were deposited with Dr Alexis Bekyane Tengan and the Foundation for Rural Education Empowerment and Development (FREED).
- Information About Originals:
- Originals held by Dr Alexis Tengan.
- Publications:
- For a detailed study of the Dagara White Bagr mythical narrative see : Alexis B. Tengan, The Art of Mythical Composition and Narration, Pensée et perspectives africaines - African Thought and Perspectives - Volume 6 (Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2012)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)