• Restricted View

Box inscription: 3 3/4 ips -- Bell Story - 1. Alefo. 2. Kwai’ime - mike connection messed up, only part is audible [listened to 28/12/76 - very pat & useless account with much coaching].

• circa 1962-1993

• Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993

Located in Series 7) Solomon Islands - Sound Recordings, subseries C) Reel-to-Reel. Arranged in numbered order from 1 to 151.

This digital sound file was recorded from original audiotape in the Roger Keesing Papers (Box 68, Folder 21).

1/4 inch open reel audio

Alefo of Ngudu (aka ’Ailai) and Kwai’ime of ’Ai’eda were principles in the 1927 attack on District Officer Bell, for which they were imprisoned for 15 years. Both lived into the 1970s.

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

• Bell assassination and punitive expedition of 1927–1928
• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)

• 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