01080     2200145   4500010001500000101000800015200009300023210004500116215002800161330060600189606004000795607005100835700002200886701002600908  a0195542231  aeng  aLightning meets the West WindbLIVethe Malaita massacrefRoger M. Keesing, Peter Corris  aMelbournecOxford university pressd1980  a219 p.cphotogr.d23 cm  aIn october 1927 William Bell, colonial government representative on Malaita, in the Solomon islands, was murdered, while collecting taxes, and his party of native police massacred. Bell was an Australian, a towering figure in the pacification of the wildest island in the Pacific, and his murder by the kwaio warrior leader Basania was the climax of a confrontation betwwen two trong men and two opposing ways of life, as Basiana and his followers, in the face of a pervasive threat to their ancestral way of life, resolved to challenge the power of Empire by killing its most forceful representative.  aMassacresySalomon|Malaita, (île)  aMalaita (Salomon ; île)xHistoirez1900-1945  aKeesingbRoger M.  4AuteuraCorrisbPeter