The British Library The British Library Trance session / Discussion in Lusoga following trance session C0023X0044XX-14 C23/44 Item note: Held in the "x-ray hut". Performance note: One of baswezi goes into trance after use of rattle. Cooke is asked for token money in the basket - someone else provides it and session continues. Posessed medium speaking in a quiet but tense falsetto. Medium is questioned by another omuswezi. Left hand of medium shakes for most of the time. Rattle used again. Medium is posessed by the god Kayiggwa. Session ends and as members go out of the hut the medium comes rapidly out of trance state. Some unidentified talk between woman and man following trance session while dancing and singing begins. Discussion of medicines? Others describe the properties of their medicines. Performer's note: Members of Uganda Herbalists and Cultural Association. Recording note: Some crackle on tape. Tape runs out before end. Recordist's note: In Peter Cooke's notes, this is PCUG88.13.5 - 13.6. Soga sound Uganda Herbalists and Cultural Association Cooke, Peter 1988-07-28 Patrick Tibagotia's homestead at Nawampiti, P.O. Box 1, Bulongo, Luuka, Uganda Peter Cooke Uganda Recordings 96000 24 00:23:49 96000 24 00:23:49 44100 16 192 kbps 00:23:49 44100 16 128 kbps