Kwaio is an ethnic group found in central Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. According to Ethnologue, they numbered 13,249 in 1999. [1] Much of what is known about the Kwaio is due to the work of the anthropologist Roger M. Keesing, who lived among them starting in the 1960s.

Expeditions to remote Kwaio, Malaita in the Solomon Islands. One of the last indigenous and traditional tribes in Melanesia still practicing Kastom.

We ourselves are a nomadic family traveling the world constantly for many years now, staying with remote and traditional living indigenous people. Our focus at the moment is on Asia and …

Remote Kwaio are the last traditional indigenous melanesian tribes. Remote and isolated highlands in Malaita offer incredible Kastom cultural heritage

The Kwaio language, or Koio, is spoken in the centre of Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands. It is spoken by about 13,000 people. [2] The phonology of the Kwaio language includes 5 vowels and 18 consonants (including the glottal stop), which are shown below. The labialised velars (gw, kw, and ŋw) only occur when preceding vowels /a, e, i/.

The most feared Malaitans were the Kwaio of the central mountains: they had attacked two recruiting ships in the 1880’s, massacring their crews to avenge relatives lost in Queensland; they had killed a missionary in 1911; and as late as 1927, when the government tried to impose the Pax Britannica and taxation, the Kwaio wiped out two British ...

Kwaio use modern technology in biological surveys, produce documentary videos, fuse traditional healing practices with modern public health and are establishing their own museum. Interest in knowledge and history mediated by artefacts – objects of daily use, technology and symbols - bring Kwaio and the Pacific Collection at the Australian ...

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2018年10月9日 · A group of Kwaio people had travelled from the mountains of Malaita, some walking for 2 days to be present as they introduced and shared a little of their life and stories including the revolutionary conservation work which they have begun.

2017年11月21日 · The Kwaio people, who live in the interior of the island of Malaita, are renowned for retaining strong kastom (tradition) – lost in most parts of the country because of colonisation and modernisation.