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Latitude

-22.120355

Longitude

167.491

Start Date

2023-02-19

End Date

2023-02-19

This Sene Lokoru song was sung during the festive times of the return of the Hiri expeditions. It was a great time of enormous joy because not only did the Hiri sailors bring back food and material goods and buatau and mats and all kinds of things from the Gulf district but they also came back alive. And it was a terribly traumatic and stressful several months when these sailors would go sail all the way up the Gulf and stay there and collect their goods and wait for the correct trade winds to bring them back. And after a few months they would turn back, return, and there'd be great celebration. The ladies would jump on board the lagatoi and sway their hips. They would sing funny nonsense songs just for sheer joy. Lokoru is about a girl who, the humour is, she serves her mother some food and she breaks wind in the process. And she serves her father some food and she breaks wind in the process and they are encouraging her to walk around with her breasts waving around. It's all for fun, good fun. "Hey Lokoru, when you served food to your mum, you walked and farted; when you served food to your dad, you walked and bum-bugled. Lokoru is a women's nonsense song of hilarity for lakatoi festivities and the the Idiomatic translation are " Hey Lokoru, walk around Vai and walk around Kabua with your boobs flopping about!" (Tommy Dietz, January 2023) Song Lyrics: Lokoru e, Lokoru e Sinamu ana oa heni, orakasidi-rakasidi Tamamu ana oa heni, orakabu-rakabu Lokoru e, Vai madai o Lokoru e, Kabua madai o Ratarata-geugeu no! Lokoru e, Lokoru e Sinamu ana oa heni, orakasidi-rakasidi Tamamu ana oa heni, orakabu-rakabu Lokoru e, Vai madai o Lokoru e, Kabua madai o Ratarata-geugeu no! Deveni Temu and the PNG Peroveta Singers Canberra, February 2023_

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