tracks

#1, Shaman Chant
#2, Shaman Chant
#3, Shaman Chant
#4, Shaman Chant
#5, Shaman Chant
#6, Shaman Chant
#7, Shaman Chant
#8, Shaman Chant
#9, Shaman Chant / #10, Shaman Chant
#11, Shaman Chant / #12, Shaman Chant
#13, Shaman Chant
#14, Shaman Chant
#15, Shaman Chant
#16, Shaman Chant
#17, Shaman Chant / #18, Shaman Chant
#19, Shaman Chant / #20, Shaman Chant
#21, Shaman Chant / #22, Shaman Chant
#23, Shaman Chant / #24, Shaman Chant
#25, War Chant / #26, Shaman Chant
#27, Shaman Chant / #28, Shaman Chant
#29, Shaman Chant
#30, Shaman Chant
#31, Shaman Chant / #32, Woman's Chant
#33, Lament / #34, Shaman Chant / #35, Shaman Chant
#36, Lament / #37, Lament
#38, Lament / #39, Lament / #40 Lament
#41 Lament / #42, Lament
#43, Lament / #44, Lament
#45, Lullaby
#46, Chant / #47, Chant

notes

"These records comprise 47 chants sung by the last true Indian of the Selk’nam (Ona) group, Lola Kiepja. The Selk’nam had no musical instruments. These chants are sung without any sort of accompaniment. The Selk’nam were the former inhabitants of the largest island of Tierra del Fuego which is located just south of the Straits of Magellan. When these recordings were taped in 1966, Lola was the only one of ten surviving people of Indian descent who was still a Selk’nam. She was the eldest of the ten..."

Gatefold cardboard sleeve with 12 pages of descriptive notes and translations reproduced in .pdf provided on the CD.

credits

Design – Ronald Clyne
Liner Notes [Cantometric Analysis] – Alan Lomax
Photography By [Cover Photograph Of Lola Kiepja], Recorded By, Liner Notes – Anne Chapman
Vocals – Lola Kiepja

companies

Record Company – Smithsonian Folkways
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Copyright (c) – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Folkways Records & Service Corp.
Copyright (c) – Folkways Records & Service Corp.

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