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Box inscription: Kwasinga (continued) -- Divining with Felo -- Niuni’iru, Sului’anga ritual, etc. -- Afolonga -- Reciprocation + kinship obligation -- Deciduous teeth -- Niu transactions (after Niuni’iru) -- Barilaenga -- Firitaa -- Funny Omea transactions -- Gulu -- Nigi’egeninga (child bethrothal) + Nao -- du'alageniga -- Alegeniga nuni’iru.

• 29 May 1970

• 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 67, Folder 3).

1/4 inch open reel audio (mono)

Saelasi Lounga was at this time a South Sea Evangelical Church (SSEC) Christian living on the coast at Uru Harbour, but was formerly an important and knowledgeable ancestral priest for the Kwangafi area. He died in the early 1990s.
Body decoration continued from reel 65.
Felo is a type of cordyline leave used for the most common form of divination in Kwaio (aringa).
Niuni’iru is a stage of marriage exchange in which men of the two groups exchange taro puddings.
In proper marriage feast (afolonga) exchange fish is a key item (into the 20th century no pigs were given). Someone was contracted to catch the fish. When they delivered it, following ritual guidelines, that was called suru’ianga.
When someone's spouse dies and they remarry, they may present compensation to the dead spouses family that's calle barilaenga.
Firitaa is death compensation.
Guru is a reward collected by someone who has stolen a pig being raised for the feast.
Nigi’egeninga is when a widow remarries. Child betrothal, where the family of the want-to-be groom nigi, arrives, at the girls father's to propose the marriage.
Alegeniga is to bring a woman home for marriage in the formal, appropriate fashion.
Recording is a continuation of Keesing Reel-to-Reel 061-065 and continues on Keesing Reel-to-Reel 067.

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

• Lounga, Saelasi

• Compensation
• Divination
• Exchange
• Kinship
• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
• Marriage customs and rites
• Mortuary feasts
• Pigs
• Ritual

• image
• sound recording

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• Roger M. Keesing Papers

• Heirs of Roger M. Keesing

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