Omong’oluk Traditional Dancers

Group Information

The current leader of the Omong’oluk Traditional Dancers is Ibriam Aduomg Omong’oluk, the grandson of the founder of the dance group, Longinos Omong’oluk who started the group in the early 1990s. He died in 1998 at 87 years old.  We first talked to Ibriam about the instruments and costumes used by the group; these included:

• Atenus: The bass drum
• Igelu: Shakers
• Akwara: Sticks
• Isiman: Jingles worn around the ankles
• Etwoo: A gourd that you blow into for a ‘bass’ beat.

The dancers wore “Emukule”, skins of cows and more rarely, Cheetahs. One of the dancers wore a “Amugwar”, a head piece made up of antelope horns.