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Box inscription: Side A: Michael Gale - Pijin - Auki 18/3/89. Side B: Michael Gale Malaitan "King".

• 18 March 1989

• 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 51, Folder 5).

Audio cassette tape

Michael Gale (Molefafe?) was the son of Ramosui. He was working at a plantation before Bell was killed in 1927. This was recorded in ’Aoke, Malaita's government center, by Keesing. Gale claims he is the "King of Malaita." He was later the boss over schoolboys at the South Sea Evangelical Mission (SSEM) center at Buma on the west Malaitan coast. He was part of the punitive expedition into Kwaio after Bell was killed. (986): He talks about the punitive expedition. He says he served in World War II first as a scout, then an "inspector." He claims, he went in an airplane to America with his wife, and then returned to the Solomons. Then he was in ’Aoke for road building (a boss for Public Works), then went to Buma. He talks of an interaction with Anifelo at Tulagi after they hanged Anifelo's father, Basiana, who led the attack on Bell's party, and killed Bell himself.

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

• Basiana

• Bell assassination and punitive expedition of 1927–1928
• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
• Plantations
• Warfare
• World War, 1939-1945

• 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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