The tshikona is traditionally a male dance in which each player has a pipe made out of a special indigenous type of bamboo growing only in few places around Sibasa and Thohoyandou (and which has almost disappeared now). Each pipe/player has one note only, and they have to play in turn in such a way that they build a melody.
And what a melody. Sensational sound.
The Tshikona is also a royal dance, each sovereign or chief has his own Tshikona band.
In this instance the dance was at the inauguration of a new chief.
