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Latitude
-4.355355
Longitude
152.2725
Start Date
1993-03-21
End Date
1993-03-21

Description

Tape#1: Various Traditional 'Abot' Songs led by Pilemon ToKilang Side A&B: The 'Abot' songs are traditional Tolai music of singing and chanting with a tune or style typically with other similar songs like Warbat, Lili but expressed in middle language to others in the meaning of stories or events in songs so mainly in Tok Pisin rather than Kuanua. The songs cover places in New Ireland, Duke of York Islands and Gazelle Peninsula and typical examples are; Stories of travels in places of Kavieng, Namatanai, Tanga, Siar (New Ireland), Use of Time in Mioko/Makada (Duke of York Islands), Doctors working at hospitals (Rapidik/Rabaul), Boat Captain (Rabaul/Kokopo), Woman of Rabaul (Nodup/Namanula). Song names include "marmari, al mari", "meri Rabaul", "ToMaidang", "wan kilok taem", "lapun meri". Other songs discussed were "Te England" (Englishman), "balus America" (American plane, "Siapan" (Japanese). (Steven Gagau, March 2019)

Sources

ID
tc1e67
Source
https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/024

Extended Data

ID
MW6-024
Languages
Kuanua - ksd, Tok Pisin - tpi
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
Publisher
Michael Webb
Contact
admin@paradisec.org.au
License
Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Rights
Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)