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MO01-036
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Title Folktale: haarii pokong petu (Haarii-nut leaf)
Description A folktale told by Maaria Goretti. The story is about a brother and a sister who lived on an isolated island. When the two went to garden, the haari-nut tree would transform into a female form and clean for the two siblings before they returned to their village. The two begin to question who has been cooking and cleaning for us. They plan to spy on who has been carrying out these duties. The boy sees the haarii-nut leaf transform into a female and tells his sister about what he witnessed. They hatch a plan to catch her and keep her as their domestic and getting rid of the tree so she would not turn back into a leaf again. A chief sees this female and falls in love with her. The other wives of the chief become jealous of her. She disappears when the other women try to force her to go to the garden, the chief learns of her disappearance, becomes angry and locked the wives in the house and burnt them.
Origination date 2009-08-17
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Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MO01/036
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Masayuki Onishi
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Papua New Guinea - PG
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Subject language(s)
Siwai - siw
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Siwai - siw
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Region / village Oceania
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Data Categories primary text
Data Types Text
Discourse type narrative
Roles Maaria Goretti : speaker
DOI 10.26278/rdxp-md28
Cite as Masayuki Onishi (collector), Maaria Goretti (speaker), 2009. Folktale: haarii pokong petu (Haarii-nut leaf). MPEG/VND.WAV. MO01-036 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/rdxp-md28
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MO01-036-01.mp3 audio/mpeg 10.6 MB 00:11:31.644
MO01-036-01.wav audio/vnd.wav 380 MB 00:11:31.607
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Collection Information
Collection ID MO01
Collection title Recordings and other linguistic materials of Motuna (Siwai)
Description Audio/visual recordings and texts of legends, clan histories, folktales, personal histories, vocabularies and conversations. Field notes containing vocabulary and paradigms of kinship terms, classifiers and verbs, some with audio recordings. Elicited short sentences.
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Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
English - eng
Siwai - siw
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