Item details
Item ID
DKH01-042_opum
Title Opum ‘Pigeon’
Description This string figure represents a pigeon (TP balus). The pigeon most commonly found on Awiakay land is Zoe Imperial Pigeon (Ducula zoeae). Along with several other birds which are occasionally shot for food, pigeon is mentioned in one of the songs of Kaunjambi, the iconic Awiakay all-night song-dance cycle (Hoenigman 2015a: 229).
This string figure can be made in two different ways, each involving a transformation from another figure.
At the beginning of the video we can see the maker starting with the design of a pig (yay). She then continues ‘to hold the pigeon’ (the name of a certain stage in string figure-making), after which the design of a pigeon (opum) emerges.
The second part of the video shows the other way of making the ‘pigeon’, this time starting with the final design of mema injua kumapa ‘the enormous vulva of a dead woman’s spirit’, then transforming it into opum ‘the pigeon’, which is later turned into wanday ‘the chicken’.

Images:
02: Darja Munbaŋgoapik showing the final design of opum ‘pigeon’
03: opum ‘Zoe Imperial Pigeon’ (Ducula zoeae)
Origination date 2018-08-10
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/042_opum
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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
Merorin Saponoŋ : performer
DOI 10.26278/GFDQ-RB92
Cite as Darja Hoenigman (collector), Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer), Merorin Saponoŋ (performer), 2018. Opum ‘Pigeon’. JPEG/MP4/MXF/TIFF. DKH01-042_opum at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/GFDQ-RB92
Content Files (6)
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DKH01-042_opum-01.jpg image/jpeg 609 KB
DKH01-042_opum-01.mp4 video/mp4 135 MB 00:01:49.439
DKH01-042_opum-01.mxf application/mxf 1.36 GB
DKH01-042_opum-01.tif image/tiff 68.7 MB
DKH01-042_opum-02.jpg image/jpeg 58.5 KB
DKH01-042_opum-02.tif image/tiff 491 KB
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Collection Information
Collection ID DKH01
Collection title Awiakay string figures
Description Recordings of Awiakay string figures
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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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