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DKH01-033_mummeri
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Title Munmeri ‘Moon woman’
Description Munmeri is Tok Pisin for ‘moon woman’ or ‘moon girl’. Only occasionally is it called tepa nambay, which would be an Awiakay translation. This string figure continues into sisis ‘scissors’. When the second figure emerges, the maker makes an action of cutting someone’s hair with it.
The Awiakay say that this is an Imanmeri string figure. Given that it is one of rare figures that represent an introduced object, and that the names of both stages of the figure have Tok Pisin rather than local names, it is clearly a post-contact borrowing.
This string figure requires (at least) two makers. There are two times in the process when the second maker comes in to take off the figure from the first maker’s hands. Skilled string figure-makers manage to do it on their own.

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02: Darja Munbaŋgoapik showing the final design of munmeri ‘moon woman’
Origination date 2018-08-16
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/033_mummeri
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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
Data Categories
Data Types MovingImage
Discourse type
Roles Doris Pan : performer
DOI 10.26278/0VZ8-FR30
Cite as Darja Hoenigman (collector), Doris Pan (performer), 2018. Munmeri ‘Moon woman’ . JPEG/MP4/MXF/TIFF. DKH01-033_mummeri at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/0VZ8-FR30
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DKH01-033_mummeri-01.mp4 video/mp4 95.4 MB 00:01:17.567
DKH01-033_mummeri-01.mxf application/mxf 1.1 GB
DKH01-033_mummeri-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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