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Box inscription: Side A: Bita Saetana on Kwaio Bata to 311. Side B: Blank.

• 8 August 1979

• 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 48, Folder 5).

Audio cassette tape

Bita Saetana was from Kwao, just south of the mouth of Sinalagu Harbour. He died in the late 1980s. His name is the Kwaio pronunciation of "Peter Satan," a name he adopted after a financial dispute with a missionary.
Bata is a generic name for shell money or money. Saetana speaks of kofu, a locally made money of coneshell. Legend has it that kofu originated from Saetana's place of Kwao. Characters in its origin story are Kwanaduu, Gataboo, Rigisi, Kwa’ifaafimae, and Too’ola.
Recording is a continuation of Keesing Cassette Tape 006-007.

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

• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
• Shell money

• 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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