Tags: Ethnic Group.
Kwaio is an ethnic group found in central Malaita in the Solomon Islands. According to Ethnologue they numbered 13249 in 1999. Much of what is known about the Kwaio is due to the work of the Marxian anthropologist Roger M. Keesing who lived among them starting in the 1960s.Their main mode of economic activity was traditionally subsistence farming of taro which could be planted and harvested continuously in swidden agriculture. Other important crops include yams and plantains.