| Description |
This is a traditional folk song, Eio Tamao from Kapari village, Aroma coast which was revived by Deveni Temu's father and his two cousins in September 1974 and performed by the village girls at the Nugini Art Festival.
The song is about this pool called "tamao" where there's a sago species that grows wild in the depths of the forest. In this pool and it has these great big spikes or needles and it's very difficult to access and make the sago. The songs goes to say you are standing there tall and wonderful and think we can't get you, we're coming to get you today. We will come and cut you down, cut down all your spikes, break them all into smithereens and we will get the sago and rush home.
Song Lyrics:
Eio tamao - tamao rai tamao
Eio tamao - tamao rai tamao
Kini kini koru koru
Matana kini koru tara
Rapia mata reko reko ea
Maiti kana ori – tepo
Maiti kana ori - tepo
(Deveni Temu and PNG Peroveta Singers Canberra, February 2023) |
| Cite as |
Jodie Kell (collector), Jodie Kell (depositor), Deveni Temu (consultant), Steven Gagau (compiler), Tommy Dietz (singer), Hane Dietz (singer), Wari Powell (singer), Laka Gwiliam (singer), Theresa Hogg (singer), Erue Stevens (singer), Salote Temu (performer), 2023. Sene, Eio Tamao - Aroma. EAF+XML/MPEG/VND.WAV. PC2-05 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/PC2/items/05 |
