Paalongo
An older musical group remembered for performances at important ceremonies and rehearsals.
Everyday cultural memory
Music, Games & Everyday Heritage
Community life was also shaped by music, play, storytelling, performance and older cultural traditions. The manuscript preserves many of their local names.
Takete-Ide’s history is being preserved through documentary evidence, community records and oral testimony. Some accounts on this page continue to be researched and verified with elders, family representatives and the traditional institution — see the status badge beside each section. If you can help confirm, correct or expand this record, please contribute what you know.
Music and entertainment in community memory
Community TraditionThe manuscript remembers organised musical groups alongside drums, bells and other instruments used at ceremonies and rehearsals. These details are important because they preserve the names of cultural forms that may otherwise disappear from everyday memory.
Source note: From the Hilltops to the Valley: The History, Heritage and People of Takete Ide, Chapters One and Three. Summarised from the supplied community historical manuscript. For this website update, the manuscript is treated as the primary community source for Takete-Ide history and heritage, except for Baptist Church-specific material, which continues to use separate Baptist church and archival sources. Where the manuscript itself contains incomplete dates, unclear wording or internal differences, the website preserves that uncertainty rather than inventing a correction.
Ogbeele
An older musical group recorded alongside Paalongo as part of the community’s ceremonial entertainment tradition.
Traditional instruments recorded
OyeAgogoAkutuEluAje
The manuscript names these instruments without providing a full organological description of each. The website therefore preserves their names without inventing construction or playing details.
Childhood games and recreation
Some activities are translated in the manuscript; others are preserved only by name. Where the source does not explain a game, this page does not guess at its rules.
Igidi
Wrestling
Ese jiju
Boxing
Ikiti
Gymnastics
Moni moni
Hide and seek
Itan / Aalo
Storytelling and fables
Mori mo mori
Recorded by name in the manuscript; fuller description not supplied
Demdi e yoro
A prank-playing activity, as described in the manuscript
Ayo / Ise
Recreational activity recorded by name
Tete
Recreational activity recorded by name
Igo tita
Recreational activity recorded by name
Ire hiha
Recreational activity recorded by name
Older religious and masquerade traditions
These traditions are presented as historical and community-memory records. The descriptions do not imply that every practice remains active today.
Otegun and Orisa
The manuscript records these as goddesses associated with women’s religious practice. It also describes ceremonial dress using wrappers, beads and bangles.
Alase
A powerful Egungun tradition originally invited from outside Takete-Ide and later described by the manuscript as becoming locally established.
Ojingindo
A palm-frond masquerade tradition described as moving in pairs, appearing in the evening or at night and communicating through whistles.
Saaji, Erembe and Iro
The manuscript describes these as older ceremonial masquerade traditions associated with the deaths of important persons and says they had become almost extinct.
Agbo-Jegejege
A leafy costume used by male children in an older recreational tradition that the manuscript says had become rare.