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MW6-108
(Collection Details)
Title Tolai Warwagira Recordings by F.Duvelle and Ray Sheridan, Rabaul
Description Tape#1: Tolai Warwagira, Rabaul, 1973
Side A: F.Duvelle
Side B: Ray Sheriden

The Tolai Warwagira was a festival with competitions of various categories of music, arts and craft.
It was mainly music in traditional dance, choirs, stringbands, gospel groups. Although it was predominantly for Tolai culture, it included the provincial ethnic groups of Bainings and Pomio people and also was open invitation to other provinces which generated alot of interest in participation mainly New Guinea Islands and New Guinea Mainland.

The various recordings are the performing groups.

(Steven Gagau, January 2020)
Origination date 1973-01-01
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/108
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Collector
Michael Webb
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Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Language as given
Subject language(s)
Kuanua - ksd
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Content language(s)
Kuanua - ksd
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Dialect
Region / village Rabaul, East New Britain Province
Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Nick Fowler-Gilmore
Data Categories song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
Roles Various - Anonymous Various - Anonymous : performer
Steven Gagau : data_inputter
Michael Webb : researcher
F Duvelle : recorder
DOI 10.26278/4JVR-S497
Cite as Michael Webb (collector), Various - Anonymous Various - Anonymous (performer), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Michael Webb (researcher), F Duvelle (recorder), 1973. Tolai Warwagira Recordings by F.Duvelle and Ray Sheridan, Rabaul. MPEG/VND.WAV. MW6-108 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/4JVR-S497
Content Files (4)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
MW6-108-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 43.2 MB 00:47:20.139
MW6-108-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 1.52 GB 00:47:20.119
MW6-108-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 43.4 MB 00:47:30.400
MW6-108-B.wav audio/vnd.wav 1.53 GB 00:47:30.389
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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)
Countries
Australia - AU
New Caledonia - NC
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
English - eng
French - fra
Hakö - hao
Halia - hla
Kuanua - ksd
Mekeo - mek
Motu - meu
Ramoaaina - rai
Saliba - sbe
Sursurunga - sgz
Siar-Lak - sjr
Solos - sol
Teop - tio
Tok Pisin - tpi
Taulil - tuh
Undetermined language - und
Warwar Feni - hrw
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Access Information
Edit access Steven Gagau
Michael Webb
Zephyr Pavey
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Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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