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DKH01-006_aynggwang
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Title Ayŋgwaŋ ‘Flying fox’
Description This string figure represents a flying fox. There are several types of flying foxes on Awiakay land and all are considered food. They are shot with bow and arrows when spotted in a tree, but men would not go out for flying-fox hunting trips. A flying fox bone used to be sharpened and made into a needle for sowing bilums, but nowadays this is largely done with chicken bones. Flying fox often occurs in Awiakay myths.
When the final figure emerges, two strings are held and the rest of the design drops down like a flying fox hanging head-down from a tree. The figure-maker bounces the ‘flying fox’, saying “kisiŋ gauk, gauk, kisiŋ gauk…”, representing flying fox’s calls.

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02: Darja Munbaŋgoapik showing the final design ‘flying fox’
Origination date 2018-08-18
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/006_aynggwang
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Collector
Darja Hoenigman
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Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Language as given Awiakay
Subject language(s)
Content language(s)
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Dialect Awiakay
Region / village Oceania
Originating university
Operator Tina Gregor
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Data Types MovingImage
Discourse type
Roles Darja Munbaŋgoapik : performer
DOI 10.26278/MRPH-SJ34
Cite as Darja Hoenigman (collector), Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer), 2018. Ayŋgwaŋ ‘Flying fox’. JPEG/MP4/MXF/TIFF. DKH01-006_aynggwang at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/MRPH-SJ34
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DKH01-006_aynggwang-01.mp4 video/mp4 135 MB 00:01:49.567
DKH01-006_aynggwang-01.mxf application/mxf 1.44 GB
DKH01-006_aynggwang-01.tif image/tiff 68.7 MB
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Collection Information
Collection ID DKH01
Collection title Awiakay string figures
Description Recordings of Awiakay string figures
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
Tok Pisin - tpi
Multiple languages - mul
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Access Information
Edit access Tina Gregor
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Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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