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Item ID
DKH01-031_mimbikin
Title Mimbikiñ ‘Imitator’
Description When the design of this string figure is finished, the string figure-maker puts it in front of his/her mouth and imitates whatever the person in front of them utters. The Awiakay say that this is a ‘bad figure’, as it tends to make the person whose speech is being imitated angry. The string figure-maker is supposed to be stubbornly persistent, so, not being able to stop them any other way, the person whose speech is being repeated often just walks away, annoyed. The spectators, however, find this very amusing.
The word mimbikiñ is derived from mimbia ikiñ ‘imitate the talk’ in the second or third person and is therefore best translated as ‘the one who imitates the talk’ or ‘the imitator’. At the same time, mimbikiñ is also the Awiakay name for pygmy parrots (curiously enough, these parrots do NOT imitate speech. For a discussion on this, see Hoenigman, forthcom.).

Images:
02: Darja Munbaŋgoapik showing the final design of mimbikiñ ‘the imitator’
03: Mimbikiñ ‘Pygmy parrot’ hatchlings

Hoenigman, Darja. Forthcoming. Talking about strings: The language of string figure-making in a Sepik society, Papua New Guinea. Language Documentation & Conservation Journal.
Origination date 2018-08-15
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/031_mimbikin
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Collector
Darja Hoenigman
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Language as given Awiakay
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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/VEV3-0S32
Cite as Darja Hoenigman (collector), Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer), 2018. Mimbikiñ ‘Imitator’. JPEG/MP4/MXF/TIFF. DKH01-031_mimbikin at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/VEV3-0S32
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Collection Information
Collection ID DKH01
Collection title Awiakay string figures
Description Recordings of Awiakay string figures
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