Poster of Baskeet musical instruments and musical pieces poster003

The poster gives a preliminary overview of the Baskeet musical instrumental and the types of songs or musical pieces. Bibliographical information: Ambaye Tsedeke & Yvonne Treis 2012. Towards a folk taxonomy of Baskeet songs. Poster presented at the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, 29.10.-2.11.2012. Yvonne Treis is a linguist and works on Ethiopian languages at CNRS in France. Ambaye was trained as a teacher and worked at different schools in the Basketo Special Woreda. At the time of the Baskeet documentation project he was one of the very free Baskeet native speakers who were fluent in English. In his freetime he worked as an assistant in the documentation project, carried out interviews, assisted in the transcription and translation and was a consultant in grammar and lexicon elicitation sessions.