| Description |
Side 1:
• Seseli (Mid Banir R.)
Kukukuku initiation text
• Maralanggka (Maralangko?) -
(mid Watut) myth (MN)
• Jeruje Myth (with Pidgin
translation) (Kukukuku). Sounds like speaker is saying [Jahojei]. Possibly also a language of the Watut river area. Vocabulary to show sound distinctions and phonetics
• 3 texts in Bentseng (Lower
Watut) (MN). (AKA Tshetsie). Stories told in Bentseng with some Pidgin & German from the recorder (German is translated in the elan file).
(Tamil can be erased)
• Latvian
• Maori
Note in AC Report by Peter J.F Newton 19th May 1995:
A small hand-drawn map is also in box. It identifes places on
Banir and Watut Rivers.
The Papuan language Silisili, Middle Banir River, Morobe
Province, PNG.
= Maralango, Austronesian language on south bank of middle
Watut River, Morobe Province, PNG.
Possibly the same language as first entry on this card.
Austronesian languages on Lower Watut River are Silisili (west
bank) and Wampar (left and right banks). Bentseng is on the left
bank.
Check if erased.
Baltic language.
Georgian? suggested on box (check).
Tape 422, side 1. Sesili and Maralanggka (Maralangko?) languages.
58.50 End of archive tape. Tape 422, side 1 is continued on the next archive tape.
00.00 AIATSIS announcement. Tape 422, side 1 continued. Jeyuje story with Pidgin translation. Texts in Bentseng.
Tamil grammar. Maori.
35.20 End of Tape 422.
AIATSIS identifier: A16645-16646 |
