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Item ID
MW6-027
Title A Bot Songs by Pilemon ToKilang and Esly Tavil (Continued), Bitavavar
Description Tape #3: Side A & B - Various A Bot songs from Duke of Yorks (DOY) and Gazelle Peninsula sung in manguages of Ramoaina, Kuanua and Tok Pisin by ToKilang and Tavil. Some brief meanings and short key words in the songs.

1. Yu pirpir olsem wonem - what are you saying? A Matupit lady under magical spells.
2. Umia la palomiwa - a brother not telling straight the death of his brother to his relatives.
3. Mi alir ni Mioko - magical spells on a lady of Mioko out at sea and had to drift and paddle back in her canoe to the beach
4. Ila kadik miwo - during wartime under Japanese occupation where calling out warnings of American warplanes.
5. Aura vavina, amur tur na tinangi - two ladies crying to the influence of magical spells.
6. Kirap long moning taem - waking up in the morning to sounds of machine guns shooting at American warplanes.
7. Ol meri no nap - You ladies are not fit or inadequate - showing off superiority with ladies of Molot (DOY) to ladies of Makolon (Sulka)
8. U Tolingu kabin iau mara ura uum, iau virua - the man, Tolingu was caught up in situation pressing onto the breasts of a lady feeling good about it.
9. U Tolingu kan una ubu iau - fearing that Tolingu will be fighting me of a relationship gone bad.

Various A bot songs mainly from Duke of York islands namely Tomatapul, Matoro, Anung midal, Midirae lome are about general life situation stories with people and their activities and movements.

(Steven Gagau, November 2019)
Origination date 1993-03-25
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/027
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Michael Webb
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Region / village Bitavavar, Vunamami, Kokopo, East New Britain Province
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Operator Nick Fowler-Gilmore
Data Categories song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
Roles Steven Gagau : data_inputter
Philemon ToKilang : singer
Esly Tavil : singer
DOI 10.26278/HQH8-9096
Cite as Michael Webb (collector), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Philemon ToKilang (singer), Esly Tavil (singer), 1993. A Bot Songs by Pilemon ToKilang and Esly Tavil (Continued), Bitavavar. MPEG/VND.WAV. MW6-027 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/HQH8-9096
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MW6-027-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 29.2 MB 00:31:56.339
MW6-027-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 1.03 GB 00:31:56.329
MW6-027-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 29.2 MB 00:31:55.39
MW6-027-B.wav audio/vnd.wav 1.03 GB 00:31:55.19
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Collection Information
Collection ID MW6
Collection title Music in Rabaul, Gazelle Peninsula, ENBP and New Guinea Islands Region (ca. 1950s - 1990s)
Description Recordings of a wide range of music in Rabaul 1950s-1990s covering areas of the Gazelle Peninsula of East New Britain Province and the New Guinea Islands Region. This collection was the PhD research work by Dr Michael Webb focused on music of Melanesia in the Pacific. This collection was located as a result of PARADISEC's 'Lost and Found' project and digitisation was funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.

Note: This video recording on Item MW6-012 labelled Queens Birthday Singsing, Rabaul in 1993 was unable to be digitised due to poor quality of tape so deleted from collection.
(Steven Gagau)
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