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DS1-NP210511_1
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Title How the coconut arrived on Baluan
Description A legend about how coconuts were introduced to Baluan. A father and son go out fishing, but a masalai (evil spirit) smells their fish and chases them. When they have fed all their fish to the masalai and are still being chased, the father tells his son to kill him and feed him to the masalai, but to take his head home with him. The son eventually does this and escapes with his life. He buries his father's head near the house. Later a coconut tree starts growing on the grave. If one looks at a coconut nowadays, it looks like a human head
Origination date 2011-05-21
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Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DS1/NP210511_1
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Collector
Dineke Schokkin
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Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Language as given Paluai
Subject language(s)
Baluan-Pam - blq
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Content language(s)
Baluan-Pam - blq
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Dialect Paluai
Region / village Oceania
Originating university
Operator Tina Gregor
Data Categories primary text
Data Types Sound
Discourse type narrative
Roles Dineke Schokkin : depositor
Dineke Schokkin : recorder
Ngat Poraken : speaker
DOI 10.26278/5df2585849cab
Cite as Dineke Schokkin (collector), Dineke Schokkin (depositor, recorder), Ngat Poraken (speaker), 2011. How the coconut arrived on Baluan. MPEG/VND.WAV. DS1-NP210511_1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/5df2585849cab
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DS1-NP210511_1-01.mp3 audio/mpeg 5.64 MB 00:06:09.274
DS1-NP210511_1-01.wav audio/vnd.wav 203 MB 00:06:09.257
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Collection Information
Collection ID DS1
Collection title Recordings of Paluai
Description Recordings of the Paluai language collected by Dineke Schokkin between 2010-2015, with an additional four recordings from 1995 by Ton Otto. This language is spoken on Baluan Island in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea.

Project funded by the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research and the ARC.
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
Baluan-Pam - blq
Tok Pisin - tpi
Titan - ttv
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Access Information
Edit access Julia Colleen Miller
Dineke Schokkin
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Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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