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Solomon Islands chief wearing a spectacular porpoise tooth chest ornament and kap-kap. Portrait of Irobaoa of Suafa, north Malaita , circa 1910.
Kapkap, 19th century, Solomon Islands
The culture of the Solomon Islands reflects the extent of the differentiation and diversity among the groups living within the Solomon Islands archipelago , which lies within Melanesia in the Pacific Ocean , with the peoples distinguished by island, language, topography, and geography. The cultural area includes the nation state of Solomon Islands and the Bougainville Island , which is a part of Papua New Guinea .[1]
The Solomon Islands includes some culturally Polynesian societies which lie outside the main region of Polynesian influence, known as the Polynesian Triangle . There are seven Polynesian outliers within the Solomon Islands: Anuta , Bellona , Ontong Java , Rennell , Sikaiana , Tikopia , and Vaeakau-Taumako .
Traditional culture
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Vella Lavella girl with painted face and shell ear ornaments, c. 1900.
In the traditional culture of the Solomon Islands age-old customs are handed down from one generation to the next, allegedly from the ancestral spirits themselves, to form the cultural values of Solomon Islands.
Tepukei (ocean-going outrigger canoes)
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A Tepukei (ocean-going outrigger canoe) from the Santa Cruz Islands .
Some Polynesian societies of eastern Solomon Islands built ocean-going outrigger canoes known as Tepukei . In 1966 Gerd Koch , a German anthropologist, carried out research at Graciosa Bay on Nendö Island (Ndende/Ndeni) in the Santa Cruz Islands and on Pileni and Fenualoa in the Reef Islands , and returned with documentary film, photographic and audio material. The films that Koch completed are now held by the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hanover.[2]
He brought back to the Ethnological Museum of Berlin the last still complete Tepukei from the Santa Cruz Islands.[3]
Contemporary culture
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In the contemporary Solomon Islands, as elsewhere in Melanesia, kastom is the core of the assertion of traditional values and cultural practices in a modern context.[4] The Kastom Gaden Association,[5] for example, advocates growing and eating traditional foods rather than imported ones.[6]
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Notable figures in contemporary Solomon Islands culture include painter Ake Lianga and musician Sharzy . Writers include John Saunana , Rexford Orotaloa , and Celo Kulagoe .[7]
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Many Solomon Islanders are passionate about sport, and it forms a major part of the country's culture in terms of spectating and participation.
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Solomon Islanders stories and legends have a cultural significance independent of their empirical truth or falsehood.[citation needed ]
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Notes
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^ "Short Portrait: Gerd Koch" . Interviews with German anthropologists: The History of Federal German Anthropology post 1945. 20 December 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2014 .
^ "The Politics of Indigenous Identity, Ethnicity and Tradition" Archived 2006-09-19 at the Wayback Machine , University of Hawai'i, Center for Pacific Islands Studies
^ "Gaden", not "Garden". The word belongs to the Pijin language , not English.
^ "Don’t rely on import food: Kastom Gaden" , Solomon Star , May 5, 2008
^ "English in the South Pacific" Archived 2008-12-06 at the Wayback Machine , John Lynch and France Mugler, University of the South Pacific
References
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Ross, Malcolm and Åshild Næss (2007). "An Oceanic Origin for Äiwoo, the Language of the Reef Islands?" (PDF) . Oceanic Linguistics . 46 (2 ): 456–498. doi :10.1353/ol.2008.0003 . hdl :1885/20053 . S2CID 143716078 .
François, Alexandre (2009), "The languages of Vanikoro: Three lexicons and one grammar" , in Evans, Bethwyn (ed.), Discovering history through language: Papers in honour of Malcolm Ross , Pacific Linguistics 605, Canberra: Australian National University, pp. 103–126 .
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