For a short biography on Freerk Kamma, see the Freerk Kamma page. On this page are the tapes and cassettes which were copied for the VPRO Urubicha radio broadcast Dit wonderlijk werk of 17-3-2005. They have been redigitized and edited for PACE. The original tapes and cassettes were returned to the relatives of Freerk Kamma.
For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl.

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Cassette 1955

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a Sony CHF 90 cassette with the same brand box. On the cassette are recordings from the 100-year festivities of the Protestant church in 1955 with songs of the Joka Choir and the church service which accompanied the general synod of 28-10-1956, with speeches and prayers. It is divided into tracks, side A into tracks 1-14 with track 1 a song by the Joka choir, then track 2 a speech and so on. Side is B is from track 15 till 27. Track 15 is a speech, track 16 also, track 17 is the Joka choir, track 18 is a speech in Bahasa and Dutch, track 19 organ and a religious song together, track 20 a closing speech. Track 21 is a flute and drum orchestra, track 22 an announcement of the church service the evening before the general synod starts. Track 23 is a speech by Reverend Drost, track 24 organ and song, track 25 a speech in Bahasa, track 26 organ and song, track 27 prayers.

Side A is 44’59 and Side B is 26’41

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Cassette 1959

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a TDK D 90 cassette and box. On the cassette on side A are examples of music from West Papua with comments by Freerk Kamma. Most examples are recorded by himself. After track 12 he gives examples of the influence of Christian hymns and ways of thinking. From track 18 we have English announcements by J.C. Anceaux of the examples he recorded till the end. Side B starts with an announcement by Harry Kamma of an excerpt of a television broadcast by the E.O. in mid-October 1987. It is followed by a number of Arnold Ap tracks: his interview with Arnoldus Marisan and songs, the Mambesak songs Dow Wambeso and Emambo, Mandir Dow Biak, Dow Rusiak by Augustus Wosambe and Ovambo Korroborree. On the cover it is indicated that the Kamma recordings are from 1959, the Arnold Ap recordings from 1979 and that it was all  copied on cassette from the original tapes in 8-11-1987.

Side A is 40’11 and Side B is 24’53

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Cassette Touwtjesdans

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a Philips SQ-C60 cassette in a brandless box with a folded paper as a cover. Side A starts with organ and congregational hymn, followed by a prayer in Bahasa and Dutch with more organ and singing and then a series of speeches for the general synod in Dutch and Bahasa; the last speech is broken off. Next comes a concert performance of probably Sampari. Side B continues with the Sampari performance; after 9’30 it changes in sounds of nature from a documentary; one hears mouth harp, voices, German comments and songs. At 14’23 there are sounds of the human body with Dutch comments about the function of the umbilical cord and the sound of a baby. There follow short excerpts of Papuan music, classical music and at 15’27 a performance of Sampari; at 25’11 Freerk Kamma comments on the Sarara dance of the Arfak, Karoon, Moi and of the people of Teminabuan and their rare syncopic rhythm, only known from Africa and the Tobriand islands, followed by an example, then the song of the bird Toksarum, part of the Amur Lagilala myth followed by a recording made in the leprosy near Sorong made in 1952, sung by  Gerson Kalami, the finest tenor known by him.

Side A is 33’11 and Side B is 34’42

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Kamma vertelt 4-2

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is in a Serenade box and dated January 1974. It contains a number of stories Freerk Kamma used to tell to his students during his lessons at the Mission School in Oegstgeest. Side A starts with the story “At sunset” on how people express their reality in their myths. At 3’59 a new story starts. “How I fooled the demons” a story about the iron Chinese trader and his daughter, at 13’29 a new story on civil servants and their behaviour called “The jetty of Makbon”, followed by “The jetty of Sorong”, and after 25’40 a new story about people who know better and the attitude of the population to them. From 33’06 a story starts about the witnesses. On side B the story continues, at 3’05 followed by the story “The  spectacles of Kamma”, at 12’52 a new story:  “The successor”, on the son of the medicine man becoming a Reverend, and at 29’01 as a last story “The confession of faith”, on when Freerk Kamma had just been stationed in West Papua near the Sentani lake, and how people there made their confession of faith through burning their tokens of sin and heathen beliefs.

Side A is 48’47 and Side B is 35’02

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Kamma vertelt 4-1

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. There are no scans or notes about this tape. It contains a number of stories Freerk Kamma used to tell to his students during his lessons at the Mission School in Oegstgeest. It is probably from November 1973. Side A has as its first story, “How I fooled the demons” or “The Iron Chinese and his daughter”, but the recording misses the beginning of the story. At 6’05 there is the story on “The jetty of Makbon”  and on 11’56 “The jetty of Sorong” follows. At 15’44, “The people who know better”, on 21’66 “The witnesses” and “The spectacles of Kamma”, at 42’12 “The successor”. On Side B “The successor” is continued, then at 8’24 as a last story “The confession of faith” on when Freerk Kamma had just been stationed in West Papua near the Sentani lake, and how people there made their confession of faith through burning their tokens of sin and heathen beliefs.

Side A is 48’47 and Side B is 15’40

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Lezing

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a Philips UC II 90 cassette in a box. There is just a short part of a lecture on side A of this tape. It is the end of a story about a trek to the Karon Dori in the Bird Head area.

Side A is 6’51 and Side B is empty

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Cassette Vertellingen II

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a Philips SQ I 90 in a box. It contains a number of stories Freerk Kamma used to tell to his students during his lessons at the Mission School in Oegstgeest. Side A starts with “How I fooled the demons” or “The Iron Chinese and his daughter”. At 5’52 is the story of “The Jetty of Makbon” and “The jetty of Sorong”, at 15’14 “The people who know better”, at 20’29 “The witnesses” and “The spectacles of Kamma”, 39’16 “Translation mistakes”, 40’31 “The successor”. On Side B the story continues but at the end at 5’03, parts of an earlier recording appear and the real end is missing. At 5’21, the story of “The myth of the dragon”. At 16’48, the last story: “A pearl of great value”.

Side A is 45’17 and Side B is 23’10

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Cassette vertellingen IV A

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a TDK D 90 cassette in the same box. It contains a number of stories Freerk Kamma used to tell to his students during his lessons at the Mission School in Oegstgeest and is dated November 1973. Side A starts with the story “How I fooled the demons” or “The Iron Chinese and his daughter”. At 5’53 follows the story of “The Jetty of Makbon” and “The jetty of Sorong”. At 15’15 is the story of “The people who know better”, at 20’25 “The witnesses” and “The spectacles of Kamma”. At 39’25 “Translation mistakes”. Side B starts with “The successor”. At 14’30 follows “Torches in the night” or “The confession of faith”, on when Freerk Kamma has just been stationed in West Papua in 1931 near the Sentani lake, and how peoplethere made their  confession of faith through burning their tokens of sin and heathen beliefs.

Side A is 40’43 and Side B is 21’33

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Cassette vertellingen IV B

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a Philips FS 90 cassette in a same brand box. It is dated January 1974.  It contains a number of stories Freerk Kamma used to tell to his students during his lessons at the Mission School in Oegstgeest. Side A starts with “The Sunset”, at 3’47 “How I fooled the demons” or “The Iron Chinese and his daughter”, at 12’47 “The Jetty of Makbon” and “The Jetty of Sorong”, at 24’12 “The people who know better”, at 31’00 “The witnesses”. On side B “The witnesses” is continued. At 12’06 “The successor” and at 27’22 “The confession of faith” a story on when Freerk Kamma had just been stationed in West Papua in 1931 near the Sentani lake, and how people there made their confession of faith through burning their tokens of sin and heathen beliefs.

Side A is 45’39 and Side B is 32’52

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Cassette Vertellingen V

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a Philips EQ I 90 cassette in the same brand box. It is dated 1974. It contains a lecture by Freerk Kamma. Side A starts with “The problem of the dead”, the complications of more souls, at 16’39 the story of “A young woman and the crocodile”, at 22’45 “The elder”, 26’25 “The young man football player”, 30’40 “The proa and the hungry rower”, 35’01 “On the secret male societies”, 48’24 “The young man who had eaten taboo food”. On Side B a continuation of the story of “The young man who had eaten taboo food”, 3’49 the importance of ceremonial exchange goods, kain timur and the dowry, 15’37 “The hunt for FCK”, 30’55 an excerpt of classical music, 30’57 the myth of the dragon and cosmic dualism, 42’32 “The pearl of great value”.

Side A is 48’56 and Side B is 49’00

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Cassette Kamma vertelt 6

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a Philips FS 90 cassette wth the same brand box. The tape is dated 28-8-1974. It contains a lecture and ethnographic stories by Freerk Kamma for his students at the Mission School in Oegstgeest. On Side A he tells: “We are strangers” and often feel superior; then he speaks on language differences, unexpected meanings and expletives; 24’20 Demianus Rumbiak guru, 27’43 construction of the airport near Sorong, 32’45 Ayau islands, pirates, statues, soul of the ancestors, collected by him for the Museum of Ethnology; porpoises as souls of drowned sailors, ballast weight. 39’58 an old story, “What kind of woman!” Side B starts with the story of “The sun and the alarm clock”, at 11’34 it continues with the story of “Alfons Awoom”, at 35’53 comes the last story of “Karon and adat payments”.

Side A is 46’20 and Side B is 41’22

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Cassette Rouwdienst Wierum

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a TDK D60 cassette and a same brand box. The tape is dated 29-9-1987. It is a recrding of the funeral service of Freerk Kamma in Wierum, the village in which he was born. Side A has the first half of the funeral service, Side B continues with the speech of the son Harrie Kamma till the end.

Side A is 24’26 and Side B is 16’47

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Cassette Rouwdienst Oestgeest

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a TDK D90 cassette and a same brand box. The tape is dated 29-9-1987. It is a recording of the funeral service of Freerk Kamma in Oegstgeest, where the organisation of the Protestant mission he worked for was situated. On side A are two-thirds of the funeral service; on side B is the continuation.

Side A is 41’43 and Side B is 16’23

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Gele cassette

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a BASF LH extra I 60 cassette in a box. It is a recording or compilation of music recordings. The quality of the sound is average with some distortion, hum, hiss and ticks. It starts on Side A mainly Wor style, from or influenced by Biak. It starts with tifa songs, from 17’57 there are songs without tifa, at 23’22 tifa again, 24’55 choir song with Christian influence, at 25’54 there is a choir song called Manseren with more voices; at 27’53 Freerk Kamma comments on the next song about Reverend Kijne. Side B Side starts with solo songs of a woman in the Bejuser style, where one can hear the sound of the environment in the background; with quite abrupt changes of recordings, at 6’37 there are songs of men with tifa; at 20’24 a solo song by a woman, with Christian influence; at 21’30 a solo song starts by a man; then changes into group song with tifa.

Side A is 29’33 and Side B is 25’10

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Cassette de antropologen 2

 

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. There are no scans nor notes on the kind of cassette. It is the recording of two parts of the Tros radio broadcasts of Gerrit Jan Zwier about the anthropologists, with a part on Bronislaw Malinowski and a part on Ruth Benedict, which is not complete and misses a section from the beginning.
If you want to listen to this tape, email to PACE at the above email addresses.

Side A is 44’56 and Side B I 40’02

 

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Band 286 Corrie Fiji

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. There are no scans nor notes on the kind of tape. It is a recording illustrating a visit of the Freerk Kamma’s daughter Corrie to Fiji. Side A starts with music, Pacific style, then at 2’33 Christian choir songs, at 11’36 some Dutch words indicating it is a choir practice, at 21’30 an English gospel song, and after 24’10 the sound of the wind becomes stronger.
If you want to listen to this tape, email to PACE at the above email addresses.

Side A is 31’38 Side B is empty

 

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Bijenkorf

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. There are no scans nor notes on the kind of tape. It is a recordings of a child and a woman, probably family of Freerk Kamma.
If you want to listen to this tape, email to PACE at the above email addresses.

Side A is 12’00 and side B is 11’32

 

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Anceaux

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. There are no scans nor notes on the kind of tape. It is a compilation of the recordings of  J.C. Anceaux with announcements in English by himself. On side A There is a song from Nimboran called Hngari, at 2’17 an announcement, a song from Nimboran called Uane, a song for the deceased. At 4’34 an announcement, a dance song from Nimboran called Seremé unjim tabe; 7’05 also a song from Nimboran called Seremé uananu bune;  9’12 the Kresi ware dance from Nimboran, Maam (Mam or Maam is cassowary); at 10’44 it ends. Side B continues with the Kresi ware dance; at 1’31  there is a song from the village of Kayapulau in the Humbold bay about the arrival of the Americans in 1944 and their war against the Japanese;  3’00 another song from Kayapulau called The deceived shooter; 4’53 the song of the Kangaroo also from Kayapulau (Binga-binga), 6’29 a song from the village Engros near Hollandia, the song of the flood; 8’26 another song from Engros, Jau, the song of the sleepy hunter, broken off at 10’44.

Side A is 10’45 and Side B is 10’45

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CD FC Kamma. Liederen uit het voormalige Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea

The CD is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a CD issued by the Kamma family with recordings from F.C. Kamma, J. Ellenberger, Ansel, J.C. Anceaux, Voorhoeve, Jansen, Alfons van Nunen, J.v.d. Graaf and P. Schreijer. There are two different versions one with 33 tracks and one with 31 tracks. The 31 track one has slightly longer tracks and the three tracks 9, 10 and 11 of the 33 track CD are just one track 9 on the 31 track CD. Further there are a number of typing mistakes in the booklet. A detailed pdf has been made with comparisons between the tracks and their originals. CD FC Kamma

CD 31 is 52’18 and CD 33 is 48’51

 

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Band 26

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. There are no scans nor notes on the kind of tape. It is a compilation of music recordings. Side A starts with a number of tifa songs in Biak style; the sound quality is not good, it is distorted and overloaded; at 25’16 choir songs; 28’16 announcement of Freerk Kamma melodies of Tobati, better sound quality, 33’13 song and dances from Australian New Guinea by the people who live near the border with Dutch New Guinea. 39’42 Freerk Kamma Nafri or the choir of the cracked voices, 42’10 Freerk Kamma Tobati. Side B starts with a number of solo songs by a woman, later by a man, and also a tifa is played; It could be very well a recording made in the Netherlands among Papuas in exile, probably the Tompoh family, at 21’20 there is a Christian style song about Kamma, followed by a more traditional male song; from 26’50 till the end is a recording of the noise of the neighbours with some comments by Freerk Kamma on why and how he recorded it from 28’30 to 28’40, and with a fragment of Christian song from 39’50 to 40’44.

Side A is 43’40 and Side B is 43’14

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Band 63 Philips

The tape is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. There are no scans nor notes on the kind of tape. It is a compilation of choir songs. On side A it starts with a number of Christian choir songs of unknown origin; there are problems with the sound and some songs end abruptly; sometimes it sounds like a button has been pushed to enhance the high sounds as at 10’29. It could be recordings from a radio broadcast, also because from time to time one hears very short broken-off voices in between the songs or short sounds of nature like at 28’54; from 34’47 it sounds like choir songs from the Pacific, Fiji or Tahiti, also with ticking sounds as though they are from a record; from 42’13 there is a flute and drum orchestra with audience; 45’46 a RONG broadcast with a statement by the Dutch Prime Minister de Quay on the agreement with Indonesia. Side B has sounds of nature, mostly bird sounds with some traffic noise; from 45’11 to 47’44 and 80’00-84’25 there are people talking in the background.

Side A is 51’08 and Side B is 97’12

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Dit wonderlijk werk

The CD is part of the Freerk Kamma collection. It is a CD of the VPRO Radio Programme Urubicha on Freerk Kamma made by Fred Gales with interviews and recordings made by or on Freerk Kamma. It was broadcasted on 17-3-2005. It starts with a tune and some voices; at 0’25 the song of the beach, the waves and the seagulls recorded in Kayapulau by J.C. Anceaux, 3’04 announcement Marianne de Lange, 3’06 Harry Kamma interview 6’10 drum and flute orchestra recorded by Freerk Kamma, 8’15 Freerk Kamma tells the story “The jetty of Makbon”, 13’48 the song of Kajob, who took away the soul of the deceased. Would that be the whites? Vocals by Rumainum, recorded by J.C. Anceaux; 16’37 Corrie Kamma interview, 20’58 the song Lagu Suku Moi recorded by Freerk Kamma, 24’18  Freerk Kamma tells the story “The deceased wife and her children”; 29’25 a Mai brat lament recorded by Freerk Kamma, 31’42 Jelle Miedema interview, 37’41 the song Am aro Meybrat na ne auwis recorded by Freerk Kamma, 38’31 Zachi Sawor interview, 42’37 Dari Ombak Besar, composed by Reverend S. Kijne, by the Cooperative choir of Genjem, recording J.C. Anceaux, 44’03 Freerk Kamma tells the story “The gift”, 47’51 song from the Baliem Valley recorded in Tiom by Reverend van der Stoep, 50’57 Corrie Kamma interview, 53’51 the song Josuna recorded by Freerk Kamma, 54’31 Marianne de Lange’s last words, 55’11 continuation music, 59’48 end music applause, fade out, 59’55 end. Language Dutch.

Length 59’56