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Box inscription: Side A: Ai’imae - Ibaa sulea mae; ’Akomae - Young Dick 29/30/89 (G). Side B: Blank.

• circa 1962-1993

• Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993

Located in Series 7) Solomon Islands - Sound Recordings, subseries B) Audiocassettes. Arranged in numbered order from 1 to 181.

This digital sound file was recorded from original audiotape in the Roger Keesing Papers (Box 52, Folder 3).

Audio cassette tape

Ibaa is the youngest son of Larikeni, from Furingudu, on the coastal slope above Sinalagu.
Recording continues on Keesing Cassette Tape 085.
’Akomae was a senior man living on the coast just inside the mouth of Sinalagu Harbour.
Ibaa is the youngest son of Larikeni, from Furingudu, on the coastal slope above Sinalagu.
An ’ai’imae is a story about killings in the past, either told or sung in ancestral chant performances that last many hours.
The Young Dick was a labor ship attacked by Kwaio (including some ancestors of Ibaa and ’Akomae) at Sinalagu Harbor in 1886, led by Arumae. ’Akomae tells the story, after Ibaa sings (sulea) a small (about 12-minute) part of the ’ai’imae about it.
Recording continues on Keesing Cassette Tape 131.

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

• Chants
• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
• Labor
• Ships
• Warfare

• 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