附註:"Songs and dances of hunting, war, work, totemistic ritual, cannibalism, myth, initiation, courtship, rain-making, funerals, magical healing, shark-catching, and marathon feasting"--Container; track 16 is a recording of birds and animal sounds from Bayer River Sanctuary.
106年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書計畫:藝術學:亞太音樂文化
"Recordings, photographs & text by John Thornley"--Container.
"From the International Music Collection of the British Library National Sound Archive"--Container.
Compact disc.
Program notes (23 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Karkar Island. Garamut call (:30) ; Mukoa silali (2:59) ; Kanam dance (1:56) -- Green River (West Sepik Province). Birua : (warrior song after killing) (1:54) ; Healing songs (7:18) ; Two healing songs. Kua kua! The bird of paradise is singing (2:16) ; Let us kill a pig and put the blood on our sick friend's wound (2:02) ; Women's sago song (1:28) ; Healing song about Lake Kanary (1:24) ; Healing song (1:22) ; Feast songs (:23) ; Three eevil : (children's healing songs) (1:15) -- Mount Hagen (Western Highlands). Hunting song of the Moge & Kopi clans (1:27) ; Women's song of the Moge & Kopi clans (1:15) ; Sing-sing (5:08) ; Two songs of love and courtship (1:17; 1:49) ; Bayer River Sanctuary (1:35) -- New Ireland. Pur (1:49) ; Bot-malanggan funeral ceremony (4:29) ; Friction-drum & song on the death of a chief (2:09) ; Getting on a lorry (1:46) ; Shark-calling song (1:47) ; Two slit-drum improvisations (1:15; :53) -- Gazelle Peninsula (East New Britain). Rongari (:53; 1:02) ; Fire dance (9:21).