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Box inscription: Side A: Bioana Part 3, 11 August 1977; Fa’afataa Part 1, 15 September 1977 (translated). Side B: Fa’afataa Part 2, 14 August 1977 (translated).
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Located in Series 7) Solomon Islands - Sound Recordings, subseries B) Audiocassettes. Arranged in numbered order from 1 to 181.
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This digital sound file was recorded from original audiotape in the Roger Keesing Papers (Box 44, Folder 6).
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Audio cassette tape
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Bioana and Fa’afataa were both senior women.
Fa’afataa was a woman from the mountains behind Uru Harbour but married Tomu Kwalata at Kwailala’e (A'esuala) on the Sinalagu coastal slope. Fa’afataa died in the late 1990s. Keesing and Shelly Schreiner interviewed her for an autobiography. The English translation is held in the Keesing Papers.
Recording continues on Keesing Cassette Tape 016.
Bioana was from behind Sinlagu and talks of langwalee’ai magic and ritual for a new mother’s return to the clearing mentrual area, then the hamlet, after birth seculsion. She also talks of women giving mortuary feasts, including her own cases.
Recording is a continuation of Keesing Cassette Tape 018 and Keesing Cassette Tape 021.
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- Heirs of Roger M. Keesing
- Schreiner, Shelly
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[Title, Date]. Roger Keesing Papers. MSS 427. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
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2021-11-15