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Coming Out of the Stone: Dangerous Heritage and the Death of the Twinhox Band

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2018

Kirsty Gillespie  and
Nicholas A. Bainton
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On the morning of 10 January 2005, a group of people boarded an open dinghy at Namatanai, located about halfway down the east coast of mainland New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. On board were the young brothers Tony and Paul Wol, musicians of the newly formed band Twinhox of Kavieng. Buoyant with the recent recording of their debut album Sorpendeng in the nation's capital, Port Moresby, the brothers had been visiting their mother's relatives in New Hanover for Christmas and New Year celebrations and were now bound for Lihir Island, returning to the home of their parents. The boat never arrived, and the travellers were never found.

Abstract in tok pisin

Abstract in Tok Pisin

Long nambawan mun long 2005, túpela brata, Tony na Paul Wol, bilong singsing grup Twinhox of Kavieng (bilong Papua Niugini) i bin lus long solwara. Long ples bilong túpela, Lihir Ailan, pianti toktok i bin kamap long dispela, hau túpela i bin kišim bagarap olsem, na pianti i bin toktok long sait bilong singsing túpela i bin wokim, wanem pawa i stap insait long dispela singsing, na husat i gat rait long wokim. Insait long dispela pepa, mitupela lukluk gut long dispela, mitupela lukluk long ol haptok insait long dispela singsing, na mitupela skelim olsem dispela pasin tumbuna i save bagarapim man, tasol tu, dispela pasin tumbuna i save kisim bagarap. Mitupela ting olsem ol tumbuna singsing na save bilong taim bilong tumbuna i gat pawa yet. Na pawa i stap yet long ol dispela kain singsing taim ol man i tanim long stail bilong nau tu, bikos tingting na save bilong ol dispela kain singsing i kamap long graun we ol pawa na save bilong tumbuna i stap.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 44 , 2012 , pp. 71 - 86
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Copyright © 2012 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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