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Box inscription: ’Elota's Omea Tape - Some at 7 1/2 (’Au, etc) -- ngadanga speeches at 3 3/4 ips. Speed varies faster than 7 1/2 ips.
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Located in Series 7) Solomon Islands - Sound Recordings, subseries C) Reel-to-Reel. Arranged in numbered order from 1 to 151.
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This digital sound file was recorded from original audiotape in the Roger Keesing Papers (Box 68, Folder 15).
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1/4 inch open reel audio (mono)
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’Elota was a big man at Ga’enaafou (see his autobiography published by Keesing). He died in the mid-1970s.
This was recorded at a mortuary feast (omea) ’Elota organized. 1. slitgong call. 2. a speech (a handwritten Kwaio transcript of this speech is in the Keesing Papers). 3. ’Ausisile for about 10 minutes is at 15 ips--Siisile is the most common type of panpipe in eastern Kwaio, an octet. It is commonly perform at mortuary feasts.
The tape then switches to 7 1/2 ips.
Then 4. Speeches are given when presenting shell money valuables to the feast givers or those who buried the corpse.
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- Heirs of Roger M. Keesing
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[Title, Date]. Roger Keesing Papers. MSS 427. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
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Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
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2021-11-15