Summary of the deposit The deposit contains digital copies of Oswin Köhler’s (1911-1996) audio recordings from different Khoisan and neighbouring Bantu groups in Southern Africa. The digitization was made possible through ELDP Legacy Material Grant LMG0005. Recordings include music, natural speech and language elicitations. Music recordings comprise instrumental music, hunting songs, dance music, and singing. Natural speech recordings include storytelling, conversations, and some rare ritual texts such as invocations of the new moon, hunting magic, or healing sessions. Elicitations include word lists and studies of grammar, tone, and dialectal variation. The major part of the recordings is from the late 1950s through 1970s with occasional later recordings up into the early 1990s. Metadata rely on the erratic written or spoken information provided by Oswin Köhler. The funding only covered the digitization and filing of available information.