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Ranongga Oral History Project

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Kenneth (Aggregated by)
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From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, an Oral Histories Program was based within the Cultural Affairs Office of Western Province, in the provincial capital of Gizo. As part of this program, Ranonggan archaeologist Kenneth Roga of Ranongga recorded 11 cassettes in 1986. Content of the recordings are historical tales, descriptions of obsolete social practices and technologies, myths, and humorous stories. Some stories from these recordings were published in the book Na Tututi Moa Pa Ganogga/Historical Tales of Ranongga Island. Western Province Government, 1989. Most have not been written. In 1999, Debra McDougall made copies of these cassettes in the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Studio in Gizo. The original cassettes in the Cultural Affairs Office were destroyed sometime in the 2000s. An Endangered Languages Documentation Program grant (LMG0015) funded the digitisation, description, and partial transcription of these files.

Created: 06 08 2019

Data time period: 27 04 1986 to 09 12 1986

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English | English Language | Ghanongga | Ghanongga Language | Lungga | Lungga Language | Pijin | Pijin Language |

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ACN 633 798 857