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MA1-007
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Title Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #7
Description Side one: (1-23) Singoi: playing "Jew's harp" Mbimbŋgongo (where ŋ = velar nasal); (23-104) Maiti: Ngwander-crocodile story; (104-153) Maiti: Yarphü and ŋotjar (animal's dance), (153-end) Maiti: Kariyawar - fighting, (location: Fira, all recorded on 1980-07-17);
Side two: (400-431) Maiti: Kariyawar- conclusion, (location: Fira, 1981-07-18); (431-443) Maiti: Ndombakwer (eel); (443-470) Maiti: Njurna ŋaré (1981-07-18); (470-end) Weni: Yethama - Bird of Paradise, story continues on Tape #8, (location: Rouku, 1981-09-19).
Origination date 1981-07-17
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MA1/007
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Collector
Mary Ayres
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Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Language as given
Subject language(s)
Wára - tci
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Content language(s)
Wára - tci
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Dialect
Region / village Fira and Tjephethak (Rouku)
Originating university Australian National University
Operator Julia Colleen Miller
Data Categories instrumental music
primary text
song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type narrative
Roles
DOI 10.4225/72/56F6AD9273BA1
Cite as Mary Ayres (collector), 1981. Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #7. MPEG/VND.WAV/JPEG. MA1-007 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56F6AD9273BA1
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Collection Information
Collection ID MA1
Collection title Stories from the Morehead District
Description Audio recordings of stories (mostly secular, sometimes comic/bawdy) in numerous dialects from two language groups in the Morehead District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Recorded by Mary Ayres, Ph.D. during doctoral research conducted in 1979 - 1981. Translations (but not transcriptions) into English provided by local informants who were native speakers of the dialect.

Associated funding:
National Science Foundation of the United States Government
Grant number: BNS 79-20932

Associated publication:
This Side, That Side: Locality and Exogamous Group Definition in Morehead Area, Southwestern Papua
Mary Clifton Ayres
University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology
March 1983
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
English - eng
Guntai - gnt
Nambo - ncm
Namat - nkm
Wára - tci
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