Title
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1982
Abstract
These are two saka, songs composed for a secret lover (hina) in traditional Sikaiana society. I know that one was collected from Fane Telena, the other I found in my notes.
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Telena, Fane and Sikaiana, Unknown, "Saka" (1982). Sikaiana Traditional Songs. 10.
https://research.library.kutztown.edu/sikaiana_songs_traditional/10
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Comments
More about Sikaiana courtship can be found here:
https://research.library.kutztown.edu/sikaiana_ethnography/10/
I have published on this topic here:
2008 Across the Reef: Separation, Conflict and Romance in the Relations between Sikaiana Men and Women. In Laura Tamakoshi and Jeannette Dickerson-Putnam, Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Legacy of Jane C. Goodale.University of Illinois Press, 149-167.