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Item details
Item ID
AC1-031
Title Mendi, Wola, Kerewa
Description Box note confirms card details (not in Capell's hand). Side 1: Mendi - Language with a number of dialects, spoken east and west of the Mendi River, Southern Highlands Province, PNG. Side 2: Wola - Probably Wala, a sub-dialect of West Mendi. Kerewa - Perhaps the adjacent language group Kewa, but possibly Kerewo, Gulf Province, PNG. Side 2 contains Kerewa (confirmed by Martin Steer 2008). Kerewo material begins at 13.30 mins into the recording.; (Date given is approximate)
Origination date 1960-01-01
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/AC1/031
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Collector
Arthur Capell
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Language as given Mendi, Wola, Kerewa
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Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Frank Davey
Data Categories primary text
song
Data Types Sound
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Roles Arthur Capell : recorder
DOI 10.4225/72/56E97CC8E9099
Cite as Arthur Capell (collector), Arthur Capell (recorder), 1960. Mendi, Wola, Kerewa. MPEG/WAV/JPEG/TIFF. AC1-031 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56E97CC8E9099
Content Files (18)
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AC1-031-A_restored.mp3 audio/mpeg 15.7 MB 00:17:11.529
AC1-031-A_restored.wav audio/wav 568 MB 00:17:13.839
AC1-031-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 14.4 MB 00:15:45.841
AC1-031-A.wav audio/wav 521 MB 00:15:47.967
AC1-031-B_restored.mp3 audio/mpeg 13.8 MB 00:15:07.27
AC1-031-B_restored.wav audio/wav 500 MB 00:15:09.58
AC1-031-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 14.7 MB 00:16:03.825
AC1-031-B.wav audio/wav 531 MB 00:16:05.977
AC1-031-IMG_01.jpg image/jpeg 921 KB
AC1-031-IMG_01.tif image/tiff 28.6 MB
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Collection Information
Collection ID AC1
Collection title Arthur Capell recording collection
Description Recordings from a wide range of languages across South-east Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, North America and Europe.
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