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Box inscription: Nguu - Basiberi - 15 i.p.s.

• 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 69, Folder 15).

1/4 inch open reel audio (mono)

Nguu is a generic term for singing but in this case refers to ’ai’imae, chants about ancestral feats and fighting in the past sung by groups at wakes or some mortuary feasts.
The lead singer here is the man Basiberi, from the ’Oloburi area. He died in the late 1990s. The style from that area is different from that in the area behind Sinalagu.
Recording continues on Keesing Reel-to-Reel 123 and Keesing Reel-to-Reel 130.

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

• Chants
• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
• Mortuary feasts

• 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