This page includes photographs of several different ceremonial events.
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- Sikaiana netball team, Honiara, 1987.
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- Sikaiana players on tennis team, Honiara, 1987.
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- This is a ceremonial exchange associated with a ceremonial friendship (soa) usually made between a boy and girl when they are young. People representing one of the friends secretly collect gifts and try to surprise the other friend with these gifts. The receivers will try to reciprocate, and the exchange go on for several rounds.
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- Ceremonial friendship exchange.
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- Ceremonial friendship exchange.
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- Ceremonial friendship exchange.
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- School dance, Tapuaki, Sikaiana, 1982.
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- School dance, Tapuaki, Sikaiana, 1982.
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- School dance, Tapuaki, Sikaiana, 1982.
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- On New Years Day, people try to sneak up on each other and rub the grime of cooking pots in each others’ faces.
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- New Years, Sikaiana.
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- New Years, Sikaiana.
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- This is a mautolotoio ceremony. Disguised people visit the house of people who have recently taken a foster child. They sing a song and expect to receive presents.
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- Mautololotolo, Sikaiana
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- Children playing marbles outside my house, Sikaiana.
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- Re-enactment of Manea for the Prime Minister, Solomon Mamaloni. Before 1930, the Manea was performed as part of refurbishing the ritual house (hale aitu).
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- Re-enactment of Manea, 1982.
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- John Kilatu as the chief, aliki, for the re-enactment of the Manea.
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- Fane Telena as the sapai ulu, the chief’s female assistant, for the re-enactment.
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- On holidays, people go through different neighborhoods on Sikaiana , singing and dancing, hakamolimoli.
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- Hakamolimoli.
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- Haiumu is game, somewhat like kick-the-can, that is played at night on Sikaiana.
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- Haiumu.
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- Haiumu.
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- On Christmas eve, people go from house to house singing songs. They are given small gifts at each house. In the morning, they divide in front of the church.
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- Sometimes, people sing and dance on the shore.
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- Dancing on shore.
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- Some Sikaiana people believed that after an accident of fall, a person could lose their inner spirit (manu).Here people have gone to a place where a little girl fell, gathered up her manu and are now placing it back on her.
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- A birthday party for Samantha Saua, Sikaiana 1980. Birthday celebrations are rare.
