Sound Recordings
name: label: Creator
content: Gibson, Gordon D. (Gordon Davis), 1915-2007
label: Collection Creator
content: Gibson, Gordon D. (Gordon Davis), 1915-2007
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Gibson, Gordon D. (Gordon Davis), 1915-2007
setName: label: See more items in
content: Gordon Davis Gibson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 137 Sound recordings
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1953-1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1984-13, Series 19
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains numerous sound recordings of Himba and Herero and related dialects including Mbanderu (Mbandieru), Gcirika, Kuvale, Dimba, Tchavikwa, Hakawona, Ndongona, Kwepe, Ngambwe, Nkumbi (Nyaneka), and Zimba (Zemba). There are several other languages and dialects represented including Leya, Olutwa, Oluzimba, and Portuguese. 

Also in the series are interviews with Father Carlos Estermann, Josef Fenykovi, and African and Portuguese natives. In addition, the series contains recordings of working group meetings from the Museum of Man Planning Committee in 1980, a press conference on Namibia, sounds of nature in Africa, and recordings for an exhibit case in the Hall of African Cultures. Three of the recordings in this series are unidentified. 

The recordings are arranged by year with the recordings of the Museum of Man Planning Committee and exhibit case recordings at the end of the series.

Item numbers were assigned by an archivist. Sound recording 50 "Herero movie soundtrack" was transferred to the Human Studies Film Archives.  Sound recording 74 is missing.

Please see Series 2. Southwestern Africa Research for Gibson's notes and translations of some of his field recordings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The series contains numerous recordings and some copies in Himba and Herero and related dialects from other Bantu-speaking tribes in Namibia, Angola, and Southwest Africa which include: Mbanderu (Mbandieru), Gcirika, Kuvale, Dimba, Tchavikwa, Hakawona, Ndongona, Kwepe, Ngambwe, Nkumbi (Nyaneka), and Zimba (Zemba). There are several other languages and dialects represented including: Leya, Olutwa, Oluzimba, and Portuguese. Non-endangered language recordings include working group meetings from the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Man Planning Committee in 1980, a press conference on Namibia, sounds of nature in Africa, and others. There are interviews with Carlos Estermann, Josef Fenykovi and African and Portuguese natives. There are three unidentified recordings. Copies of recordings in the series are also contained here.