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Latitude

-8.831635

Longitude

166.834

Start Date

1966-01-01

End Date

1966-01-01

Loose insert (2). Papua 3. CUT 1: Children's flute songs from the Samoan and Raratonga - Bloody dreadful use only for contrast with own culture. CUT 2: Motuan Children's song - two group on reef shell fishing. Boys care giver. Girls sing this song. CUT 3: Manu Manu Children's song. Song for teasing their older brother. They accuse the men of catching fish, beaching the canoes, cooking and eating the fish and bringing none home. CUT 4: Children's song from M/M (Manu Manu). Children tell older brothers that when they marry they'll have to look after them and have reward later. Offic...(?) village ...(?) and whistle. CUT 5: Children's song M/M (Manu Manu). Sung by girls while boys stage mock tug of war. CUT 6: Children. Transplanted from Manus - A Manus fisherman's song. CUT 7: (crossed out) Another Manus fishing song with clapping. Deleted. CUT 7: Still another Manus song introduced by ...(?) fisheries officer. CUT 8 HIRI Recapitulation. a) First step is to go up Vanupa (?) and cut canoe logs. Before this there is a village meeting at which men who are going to take part place axes in pile. An elder describes (in Motu) what will happen. Then it happens. (Good sequence strong voices). Updated Collection URL: http://archivesonline.uow.edu.au/nodes/view/665 Updated Item URL: http://archivesonline.uow.edu.au/nodes/view/3188 (Steven Gagau, March 2018)

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