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Box inscription: Side A: Busumae on Kwaio, Geuamae - Fadanga, Mt. Austen - 20/5 #2. Side B: Tage’eori - Osita, Pijin on World War II - Dangeabe’u on Christianity.

• 20 May 1990

• 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 56, Folder 5).

Audio cassette tape

Batamani Maenaa’adi from Saua in the mountains behind Sinalagu worked with extensively with Keesing. Busumae is Manaa’adi's older brother. Both brothers were still living in 2020.
Daneabe’u was Busumae and Maenaa’adi's older brother. He died in 2020.
Busumae talks of the Kwaio Fadanga, the local version of an area council, by this time estranged from most bush people under its leader Folofo'u. An English transcript for part of it is in the Keesing Papers.
Geuamae is a man from Naangari in the central Kwaio mountains.
Mt. Austen was the site of a murder of three members of a family by Kwaio men in the 1980s. Three Kwaio were arrested for the attack, one was acquitted, and one hanged himself in prison.
’Autage’eori is a type of panpipes played throughout ’Are’are and into southern Kwaio. There are six panpipes in the performamnce (occasionally seven).
Osita (m) talks in Pijin about his World War II experiences.
Dangeabe’u was an ancestral priest from Saua, and the older brother of Maenaa’adi and Busumae. He died in early 2020.
Recording is a continuation of Keesing Cassette Tape 121.

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

• Kwaio Fadanga

• Christianity
• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
• Music
• Musical instruments
• Politics
• World War, 1939-1945

• image
• sound recording

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• Roger M. Keesing Papers

• Heirs of Roger M. Keesing

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