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ROHP1-862
Title Ranongga Oral History, Tape 7: Birthing practices discussed by women of Buri and other stories
Description Women of Buri village, Ranongga, discussing birthing practices from the past.

ROHP1-862-A: The women are not named, but there are several different women. The discuss food taken to the birthing house (sigu), the washing of the mother and baby, the celebration of a birth of a girl or a boy, and the return to the village. The first half of the recording is Kubokota; at 14:42 a woman begins explaining much of the same material in Solomon Islands Pijin.

ROHP1-862-B: Speakers are not named. It sounds like a conversation between an elderly woman and an elderly man. They discuss the seasons, beginning with the fruiting of nut trees (ngari, neni), the season called rarovido; then in relation to the tides (mati rane, odu rane) and winds; then there is a discussion of fishing in relation to the tides; then season of illness. The last few minutes focus on the tabu site at Loboro.

Exact date unknown.
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Original description on cassette cover:
(A) Custom clinic. (B) Custom calendar. Note: Recorded in Buri village, Ranongga Island, Western Province, Solomon Islands. | workingLanguages: eng | location: Buri village | access: O | accessDescription: The material is licensed under Creative Commons Licences with the licence CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). This means that others may download the materials, build on them and share derived materials with others as long as they credit the original creators and as long as they share their derived materials under the same terms. Others must not use the materials commercially | description: Women of Buri village, Ranongga, discussing birthing practices from the past.

ROHP1-862-A: The women are not named, but there are several different women. The discuss food taken to the birthing house (sigu), the washing of the mother and baby, the celebration of a birth of a girl or a boy, and the return to the village. The first half of the recording is Kubokota; at 14:42 a woman begins explaining much of the same material in Solomon Islands Pijin.

ROHP1-862-B: Speakers are not named. It sounds like a conversation between an elderly woman and an elderly man. They discuss the seasons, beginning with the fruiting of nut trees (ngari, neni), the season called rarovido; then in relation to the tides (mati rane, odu rane) and winds; then there is a discussion of fishing in relation to the tides; then season of illness. The last few minutes focus on the tabu site at Loboro.

Exact date unknown.
Elan files have time aligned content notes but no transcription

Original description on cassette cover:
(A) Custom clinic. (B) Custom calendar. Note: Recorded in Buri village, Ranongga Island, Western Province, Solomon Islands. | status: Incoming | involvement: unspecified | locationRegion: Ranongga Island, Western Province | locationCountry: Solomon Islands | planningType: unspecified | socialContext: unspecified | keyword: childbirth, traditional calendar, weather, nut trees | topic: Ranongga Oral History
Origination date 1986-07-20
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/ROHP1/862
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Debra McDougall
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Region / village Ranongga Island, Western Province
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Originating university University of Melbourne
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Data Categories primary text
Data Types Sound
Discourse type narrative
Roles Kenneth Roga : recorder
Kenneth Roga : researcher
Ghera : participant
Ghera : speaker
Ellen Siga Dao : speaker
Samavido : speaker
Zuna Aseri : speaker
Satu : speaker
DOI 10.26278/EKS6-TP81
Cite as Debra McDougall (collector), Kenneth Roga (recorder, researcher), Ghera (participant, speaker), Ellen Siga Dao (speaker), Samavido (speaker), Zuna Aseri (speaker), Satu (speaker), 1986. Ranongga Oral History, Tape 7: Birthing practices discussed by women of Buri and other stories. EAF+XML/MPEG/VND.WAV. ROHP1-862 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/EKS6-TP81
Content Files (6)
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ROHP1-862-A.eaf application/eaf+xml 149 KB
ROHP1-862-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 22.4 MB 00:24:30.490
ROHP1-862-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 808 MB 00:24:30.460
ROHP1-862-B.eaf application/eaf+xml 54.8 KB
ROHP1-862-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 9.31 MB 00:10:10.332
ROHP1-862-B.wav audio/vnd.wav 335 MB 00:10:10.303
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Collection Information
Collection ID ROHP1
Collection title Ranongga Oral History Project
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Edit access Debra McDougall
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