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RV1-041A160208
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Title Blanga Totems - Nason Haidu
Description Chief Nason Haidu is talking about the two totems of the Northern Blanga people: Posamogho (snake) and Khome (crocodile). Totem transmition is matrilineal and, as expected, bearers of the same totem cannot marry each other. Interestingly, Haidu's ancestors decided that in order to avoid marriage between brothers two totems are enough, so they stubbornly opposed the penetration of any other totem. Thus, the Kusa (fish species) totem, original from Kia, and the Eagle totem from Bughotu were assimilaqted into Posamogho and Khome respectively. Khome itself is actually the name of a shell species, but the myth was created that the particular shell had descended from a crocodile (Nasava), so the Khome people consider themselves crocodiles.
Origination date 2008-02-16
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Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/RV1/041A160208
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Radu Voica
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Solomon Islands - SB
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Language as given Blanga
Subject language(s)
Blablanga - blp
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Content language(s)
English - eng
Pijin - pis
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Dialect Northern Blanga
Region / village Popoheo, St Isabel
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Data Categories primary text
Data Types Sound
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Roles Radu Voica : researcher
DOI 10.4225/72/56FAA16EEDF8A
Cite as Radu Voica (collector), Radu Voica (researcher), 2008. Blanga Totems - Nason Haidu. MPEG/VND.WAV. RV1-041A160208 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56FAA16EEDF8A
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Collection Information
Collection ID RV1
Collection title Blablanga (Solomon Islands)
Description Audio recordings of Blablanga (also known as Blanga) spoken in the Soloman Islands. Includes word lists, elicited sentences, discussion of culture, history (both personal and general), discussion of daily life and tasks, directions, colours, stories, poems, riddles, explanation of traditional dace, song and conversation. Also recorded are a range of elicitation tasks including the pear story, map tasks, Bowerman's topological relations pictures, frog story, Johnston's 1989 Austronesian elicitation questionnaire, MPI containment task, MPI caused positions clips, mouse story and MPI walnut game.
Countries
Solomon Islands - SB
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Languages
Blablanga - blp
English - eng
Zazao - jaj
Pijin - pis
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