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Article
Publication Date
1982
Abstract
An interview with Fane Telena concerning the traditional rituals of Sikaiana. There is a very good discussion of the Teika LLee, a ceremony performed when a large fish washes ashore to placate any dangers it might have.
A mp3 file is here and a wav file attached for archival puposes.
A timeline of topics is below:
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Recommended Citation
Telena, Fane, "Teika LLee and other rituals" (1982). Sikaiana Traditional Rituals and Beliefs. 3.
https://research.library.kutztown.edu/sikaiana_ritualsbeliefs/3
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Tape 33A Fane
Timeline on tape.
000 work of the Aliki (Chief)
1:20 Teika Llee, (ceremony when fish washed ashore) good
7:40 Puutuna, women dance,
13:00 sing saka at this time when men and women join together
18: Kunuaika
19:00 Puina song festival when men and women break into separate groups to compose songs to sing to opposite sex
20:30. Succession of Aliki (Chief) before arrival of missionaries, several chiefs died in succession
23:20 destruction of hale aitu and hale henua destruction of ritual houses before arrival of missionaries
25:50 traditional leadership, two descent lines of island leadership
28:20 Hetuna (people who inhabited Sikaiana before its settlement by the ancestors of the Sikaiana people), Tehui Atahu and Tehui Luaniua, founder heros of Sikaiana