Ranongga Oral History, Tape 5: Accounts of respectful living, childbirth practices, and other stories from Keara village

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ROHP1-865-A 1) Jekop Kolin. Respect shown to chiefs in the past. lga 2) Qibela. Respect within the family. lga 3) Simion Beikera. Marriages were arranged in the past. Families looked for men and women who could work hard. lga 4) Old women of Keara sing a song from the birthing house (sigu). lga 5) Resili Tote. What older women did while helping the woman giving birth, making special foods, singing special songs and dances. She sings the song sung upon exiting the sigu. lga 6) Pita Muni. Respect relationships between cross-sex siblings, especially those known as 'pujuku dara'. lga ROHP1-865-B. 1) Laela Lina Zuna. Account of how women prepared to go to the sigu, what happened with the birth, and how the women left the sigu and returned to the village. lga 2) Laela Lina Zuna. Song sung at the time of birth. lga 3) Laela Lina Zuna. Description of how men climbed nut trees, using different techniques for nali and neni. lga 4) Laela Lina Zuna. Account of weddings in the past when puddings were exchanged. lga 5) Keti. Very faint recording with talk of fighting and Lajei clan. ghn 6) Jekop Kolin. Story of Varu and relationship between Riuwai and Lajei. lga 7) Jekop Kolin. Relocation of Varu after violent encounters with Europeans. lga Elan file is segmented but not transcribed; contains time-aligned English summaries. Original description on cassette cover: (A) 1. Chiefs structure; 2. Respect in home; 3. Engagement; 4. Sighu song; 5. Food for a mother; 6. Respect within tribes; (B) 1. A custom place to deliver babies; 2. Song related to birth; 3. Harvesting nuts; 4. Pudding; 5. ?; 6. Tabu sites. Note: Recorded in Keara village, Ranongga Island, Western Province, Solomon Islands. | workingLanguages: eng | location: Keara village | access: O | accessDescription: The material is licensed under Creative Commons Licences with the licence CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). This means that others may download the materials, build on them and share derived materials with others as long as they credit the original creators and as long as they share their derived materials under the same terms. Others must not use the materials commercially | description: ROHP1-865-A 1) Jekop Kolin. Respect shown to chiefs in the past. lga 2) Qibela. Respect within the family. lga 3) Simion Beikera. Marriages were arranged in the past. Families looked for men and women who could work hard. lga 4) Old women of Keara sing a song from the birthing house (sigu). lga 5) Resili Tote. What older women did while helping the woman giving birth, making special foods, singing special songs and dances. She sings the song sung upon exiting the sigu. lga 6) Pita Muni. Respect relationships between cross-sex siblings, especially those known as 'pujuku dara'. lga ROHP1-865-B. 1) Laela Lina Zuna. Account of how women prepared to go to the sigu, what happened with the birth, and how the women left the sigu and returned to the village. lga 2) Laela Lina Zuna. Song sung at the time of birth. lga 3) Laela Lina Zuna. Description of how men climbed nut trees, using different techniques for nali and neni. lga 4) Laela Lina Zuna. Account of weddings in the past when puddings were exchanged. lga 5) Keti. Very faint recording with talk of fighting and Lajei clan. ghn 6) Jekop Kolin. Story of Varu and relationship between Riuwai and Lajei. lga 7) Jekop Kolin. Relocation of Varu after violent encounters with Europeans. lga Elan file is segmented but not transcribed; contains time-aligned English summaries. Original description on cassette cover: (A) 1. Chiefs structure; 2. Respect in home; 3. Engagement; 4. Sighu song; 5. Food for a mother; 6. Respect within tribes; (B) 1. A custom place to deliver babies; 2. Song related to birth; 3. Harvesting nuts; 4. Pudding; 5. ?; 6. Tabu sites. Note: Recorded in Keara village, Ranongga Island, Western Province, Solomon Islands. | status: Incoming | involvement: unspecified | locationRegion: Ranongga Island, Western Province | locationCountry: Solomon Islands | locationContinent: Oceania | planningType: unspecified | socialContext: unspecified | keyword: respect, marriage, childbirth, song, nut trees, clan relations | topic: Ranongga Oral History. Language as given: . You can access this item at the PARADISEC website. You will need to sign up or sign in first.

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Debra McDougall

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