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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Alex Chadwick - Commentary. Timecode In: 00:00:31. Timecode out: 00:21:51. Notes: Dogon Country. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Village ambi. Timecode In: 00:22:50. Timecode out: 00:24:05. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Hogon Samba. Timecode In: 00:24:12. Timecode out: 01:38:19. Notes: Dogon culture and beliefs; translated by Roberto Cerea. Equipment Notes: Decoded MS Stereo. Show: Mali - Issa Log of DAT #:18A Engineer: Leo Date: January 27, 2003 S = Hogon Samba IM = Issa Mohammed R = Roberto Cerea WD = Wade Davis CR = Chris Rainier AC = Alex Chadwick CJ = Carolyn Jensen Leo = Leo del Aguila 0:31 AC We're just starting up hill here to go to the Dogon village of Goumo. This is a village high on a cliff-side. An American might compare it to the kinds of communities that we know of, of the Pueblo Indians in the Southwest. That is these very elaborate villages built right into the sides of the cliffs. Here's a couple of Dogon boys going right on by us. 0:56 FX. Boys walking. 1:00 AC That how they build here in the Dogon culture along this, along this high cliff that runs for miles and miles and miles. The homes the villages and the burial caves of the ancestors are all up here above us and we're walking up to them now. It's steep, it's a long ways. 1:20 Ambi. Walking sounds. 1:57 AC This is the, this is the second time we've made this climb today. We're going up to interview the Hogon, who's the leader of this village. We spoke to him earlier about Hogon beliefs and we're coming back this afternoon to finish the interview. 2:21 Ambi. Walking. 3:34 AC (faintly). It's all very rocky. 3:39 AC It's all very rocky, very steep. It's, uh, it's half-way between a hike and a climb. It's, uh, pretty steep. It'd be a bad place to take a fall. 3:55 Ambi. Walking 5:12 AC It's a little, little kind of a flat section here and then we get to the really steep part where we have to climb across a large rock face. 5:22 Ambi. Walking 6:28 Leo says hi and that he's adjusting the mic. 6:43 AC Uh, okay, we've come to the rock face here just ahead and Leo's going to stop recording because I don't think you can record and climb that at the same time. 6:53 Leo says he came with the elder and that they should take the route of the elder instead. 7:05 Ambi. Walking 8:15 AC This hike is a scramble from boulder to boulder to boulder. There are huge rocks here. 8:24 Ambi. Walking, heavy breathing. 9:26 Leo asks Alex if he's happy they took the elders route. 9:31 AC We're several hundred feet in elevation now above the valley floor and it just spreads out below us. There's another ridge probably, uh, oh a mile away and running west from here it drops off and ends and the valley spreads out. Through the valley haze, about 5 or 6 miles away, I can see another set of hills and ridge lines over there. So it's rocky, really rocky country here. 10:02 Ambi. Bird chirps. Walking sounds. 11:39 AC This is the entrance to the village. A series of stone terraces, uh, leading on up to where the huts are. You can't actually¿huts I call them they're really houses, they're really substantial. You can't actually see them from down below though, you have to get up here. When the Dogon came here they were fleeing, they were fleeing from the invasion of Islam and from slave raiders. When the Dogon came here they were on the run. They came from hundreds of miles to the West in Mali. They came here fleeing Islam and slave raiders and on this hill they found refuge. And all along this escarpment that runs 80 miles they built these communities high up, wonderful defensive positions and they were safe. And they've been here since 14-1500. 14:02-19:17 Ambi. Hike to Dogon village. (Leo is breathing ... (Notes truncated)
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- SONY TCD-D7
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- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 50
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- Cataloged
- 5 Mar 2010 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 5 Mar 2010 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 5 Mar 2010 - Ben Brotman