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Box inscription: Side A: Batalamo Sulea Mae II - Feoka, Takaa, Taaboo. Side B: Story of Rulaamae - Kwalobina - Tetefou, etc. -- 3 3/4 i.p.s.

• 9 April 1977

• Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993

Located in Series 7) Solomon Islands - Sound Recordings, subseries C) Reel-to-Reel. Arranged in numbered order from 1 to 151.

This digital sound file was recorded from original audiotape in the Roger Keesing Papers (Box 70, Folder 10).

1/4 inch open reel audio

Batalamo was from Lala’ai, on the Sinalagu- ’Oloburi border in the mountains. He is the main singer here in the ’ai’imae peformance of a story about ancestral killings. Backup singers include his son Feoka, and Taaboo from Kwailala’e on the coastal slope to Sinalagu.

• Malaita (Solomon Islands)
• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Solomon Islands

• Chants
• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)

• image
• sound recording

Online finding aid

• Roger M. Keesing Papers

• Heirs of Roger M. Keesing

[Title, Date]. Roger Keesing Papers. MSS 427. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]

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2021-11-15