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DKH01-008_isik
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Title Isik ‘Breasts’
Description This string figure represents breasts, an iconic symbol of a woman (even in Awiakay sign language, a sign for ‘woman’ is breasts), but breasts are also a symbol of belonging, relation and mutual social obligations. Even classificatory children are said to have drank from their classificatory mother’s breasts, meaning that that woman took care of them at some stage of their life as she would of her biological children.
When the final design of this string figure emerges, two of the hanging loops might be shorter, the other two longer. The longer ones are said to be an old woman’s breasts, the shorter ones a young girl’s breasts.
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02: isik ‘breasts’ final design
03: Darja Munbaŋgoapik showing ‘the breasts’
Origination date 2018-08-15
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/008_isik
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Collector
Darja Hoenigman
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Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Language as given Awiakay
Subject language(s)
Content language(s)
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Dialect Awiakay
Region / village Oceania
Originating university
Operator Tina Gregor
Data Categories
Data Types MovingImage
Discourse type
Roles Darja Munbaŋgoapik : performer
DOI 10.26278/A1H5-HK14
Cite as Darja Hoenigman (collector), Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer), 2018. Isik ‘Breasts’. JPEG/MP4/MXF/TIFF. DKH01-008_isik at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/A1H5-HK14
Content Files (6)
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DKH01-008_isik-01.jpg image/jpeg 749 KB
DKH01-008_isik-01.mp4 video/mp4 83.2 MB 00:01:07.605
DKH01-008_isik-01.mxf application/mxf 990 MB
DKH01-008_isik-01.tif image/tiff 68.7 MB
DKH01-008_isik-02.jpg image/jpeg 833 KB
DKH01-008_isik-02.tif image/tiff 68.7 MB
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Collection Information
Collection ID DKH01
Collection title Awiakay string figures
Description Recordings of Awiakay string figures
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
Tok Pisin - tpi
Multiple languages - mul
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Access Information
Edit access Tina Gregor
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Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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