SENSITIVE CONTENT Music of New Guinea, Recorded by AP Elkin (University of Sydney Series 42A and 42B)

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Music of New Guinea recorded by Elkin, 1955. Pressing produced by Process Recording, Columbia Gramophone, Aust., Disc label states: Must not be publicly performed without express permission. Nat 14 handwritten on the cover.

Description on disc: Side 1, 42a: Cut 1, Wabag Papuan shouting a message then yodelling; Cut 2, Yodelling; Cut 3, Chimbu Papuans playing bamboo flute. Side 2, 42b: Chimbu flute playing.

General description of the 1955 recordings ['New Guinea' - Oceania, 1957]: 42 A (cut i). Wabaga shouting a message and then yodelling ; yodelling continued in cut ii. 42 A (cut iii), 42B and 43 A. Flute playing at Kundiawa, in the Chimbu, in the central part of the Highlands.

Elkin, A. P. “Australian and New Guinea Musical Records.” Oceania, vol. 27, no. 4, 1957, pp. 313–19. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40329063 (Accessed 24 June 2025.)