Item details
Item ID
TS1-N122
Title N122
Description Pucow Oto Sinda, stories. Also 65.5.9 Bobun of Jowan stories. The jumping around from place to place may relect on material from various places collected in Lorengau ?
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"Oto Sinda of Pucho followed by Bobun of Jowan (Lindrow language group) . Problem with the tape. Part of it seems spliced in reverse side. I’m starting a few minutes after the beginning where the tape seems OK. A WAR STORY.
Tape made while we lived in Lorengau at the Council center, next door to Paliau’s house. Oto Sinda was in a lengthy stay in Lorengau and made a number of tapes.
Story of the slaughter of the people of Mondrolong, related to Peli Kawa. Payback of a house pamuk ambush. A long buildup for the ambush. This is at least the third story from various parts of Manus of a house pamuk ambush. War magic to confuse o turn the eyes of the enemy. TS note on cannibalism and taking of slaves. Sinda says they didn’t do it.
Story by Bobun of Jowan. He is the crocodile totem. Fish poisoning. His right to the river and its fish. He was protected by the crocodiles of his own river (Like Peter of Nrossun) Another story of a man who was taboo to sleep with his own wives. Masalai lapahahai. Mpukey came to bung in Malai Bay (malembey) This is the story of a man, busuvadi. The other man (a poroman of busuvadi) came to Prenim busuvadi’s wife. Busuvadi knew something wrong was happening because he caught no fish. Story turns out to be origin of Sago. They eat and vomit. Each saksak is named. The first saksak in Lindrow. A line of children born. Seem to have birth order names. Origin of the Lindrow people. Jowan part of Lindrow. Includes the origin of all Lindrow settlements.
Another story by Bobun of Jowan. A snake who made a river. Snake wanted to hide from sun. Had no water except rain water. The snake was masalai. Head of man, two snake tails. Quest for water. A river near Derembat (nritampat) He made various rivers. All the rivers named. Many of them. Names all the rivers between Derembat to Busu, Lapabusu whose men kill the snake. Blood make red fish. Tail makes long fish. Origin of rivers, fish."
Origination date 1965-05-08
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/TS1/N122
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Collector
Theodore Schwartz
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Language as given Pucho, Lindrow
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Region / village Manus, PNG
Originating university University of California, San Diego
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Data Categories primary text
Data Types Sound
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DOI 10.4225/72/56FFE9086D9DE
Cite as Theodore Schwartz (collector), 1965. N122. MPEG/VND.WAV. TS1-N122 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56FFE9086D9DE
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Collection Information
Collection ID TS1
Collection title Theodore Schwartz collection
Description The bulk of the collection comprises recorded interviews with the people of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, made from 1953 through the 1990s. These include interviews in which psychological data are being collected, interviews regarding historical events, and interviews with leaders and participants in contemporary events. There are also a number of recordings of public meetings and religious services. Most of the recordings are in the lingua franca of much of Papua New Guinea, Tok Pisin. Others are in the local languages of Manus people, and some provide Tok Pisin translation of local language material. Non-audio material includes photographs taken during field research in Papua New Guinea as well as original field notes.
This file will list and annotate the tapes processed as part of Project Manus Digital. In this project many of the tapes I made in Manus (the whole Admiralty Island Archipelago, now known as Manus Province of Papua New Guinea, will be played from the reel to reel and cassette audio recordings into the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Awe 64 value sound card of my computer. This will make an analogue to digital conversion and store the digital copy of these analogue/ audio tapes. The digital copies will be stored first on Iomega Jaz disks, later on CD or DVD disks. While the tapes are playing and being digitally copied I will list them and in many cases annotate them in this file on my MS Word 97 word processor. In some cases I will transcribe sections of a tape in a separate word processor file. When that happens it will be noted in this file TapeWork/ntapes”

The tapes are in several series. A—stands for AIE or Admiralty Island Expedition, 1953-54. Margaret Mead was in Manus with TS and Lenore Foerstel (then Lenora Shargo Schwartz). We were based first in Bunai village, then in Pere village on the South Coast of Manus at that time. All tapes were reel-to-reel, made with a Magnecorder tape recorder powered by a gasoline generator.
The “N—series stands for NGAI, New Guinea Admiralty Island Expedition from 1963-1966. TS was accompanied by Lola Romanucci Ross (then Lola Romanucci Schwartz) for the first two years; alone for the third year. We were based in various villages, mostly Pere but for six months each in Sori, Mokareng, and for a shorter time, in Lorengau. Work in Bunai (an amalgamated village of Manus and Usiai) near Pere. RAI refers to “Return to Admiralty Island” in 1967 by TS. The CA expedition (which I have just assigned these initials) was in 1973 and 75. CA stands for Cognitive Acculturation, a TS project funded by the National Institute of Education. In 1973 I was accompanied by 3 then graduate students, Edwin Hutchins, Geoffrey White, and Michael Smith. I returned myself in 1975. Various trips of from 1 to 3 months follow. The last of these was in 1993.

There are between 300 and 400 tapes.

Note: There are a number of empty items in this collection, a result of the metadata being supplied before the recordings were provided. The Tuzin Archive at the University of San Diego has also created a collection for this material, see https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/collection/bb1233646w.

Under the N-series of NGAI Expedition, two Items TS1-N018 and TS1-N159 were recorded in the Sepik Region. (Steven Gagau, September 2017)
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