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Box inscription: Side A: Suufiomea - Maefanaomea Larikeni's Omea/Wa’i / Maenaa’adi - Tagii’au's Omea 5/6/90 #6. Side B: 5/6/90 Maenaa’adi Omea, inflation - moon words 5/6/90.
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Located in Series 7) Solomon Islands - Sound Recordings, subseries B) Audiocassettes. Arranged in numbered order from 1 to 181.
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This digital sound file was recorded from original audiotape in the Roger Keesing Papers (Box 56, Folder 9).
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Audio cassette tape
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Suufiomea was a highly knowledgeable man from Laa’ula (Malairi), inland behind Sinalagu and Uru. He died in the late 1990s.
Suufiomea and Maefanaomea talk about the omea mortuary feast for Larikeni, who lived at Furingudu on the coastal slope above Sinalagu Harbour. He was Maefanaomea's father-in-law. He died in the mid-1980s.
A wa’i i is an opening marriage payment.
Then Maenaa’adi talks about a mortuary feast he put on at the death of his father, Tagii’au. Their home area is from Saua ('Aisi'ina, Furi’isi’ina) in the mountains behind Sinalagu Harbour Batamani Maenaa’adi worked extensively with Keesing. He was still living in 2020.
Maefanaomea of Ga’enaafou is the eldest son of ’Elota. At this time he was living at Maamalasuala (Maange'engori) in the mountains behind Sinalagu Harbour.
Recording is a continuation of Keesing Cassette Tape 125.
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[Title, Date]. Roger Keesing Papers. MSS 427. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
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