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DKH01-049_tapuka_1
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Title Tapuka oluka koy kuriapongoy ‘Old man climbing up a coconut tree’
Description This string figure represents an old man climbing up a coconut tree. The figure itself is especially entertaining because the figure of the ‘man’ is moved up and down the ‘trunk’. The string figure-maker says that the man is climbing the coconut tree, reaches the top, pulls off a coconut, and climbs down again. As this ‘climbing’ with the figure is a lot of fun, the string figure-maker does it several times, saying: “… and he’s going up again…”

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02: tapuka oluka koy kuriapongon ‘old man climbing a coconut tree’, final design
Origination date 2018-08-16
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/049_tapuka_1
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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

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Originating university
Operator Tina Gregor
Data Categories
Data Types MovingImage
Discourse type
Roles Darja Munbaŋgoapik : performer
Daglas Kondomap : performer
DOI 10.26278/YXV5-N328
Cite as Darja Hoenigman (collector), Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer), Daglas Kondomap (performer), 2018. Tapuka oluka koy kuriapongoy ‘Old man climbing up a coconut tree’. JPEG/MP4/MXF/TIFF. DKH01-049_tapuka_1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/YXV5-N328
Content Files (4)
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DKH01-049_tapuka_1-01.jpg image/jpeg 614 KB
DKH01-049_tapuka_1-01.mp4 video/mp4 238 MB 00:03:13.323
DKH01-049_tapuka_1-01.mxf application/mxf 2.71 GB
DKH01-049_tapuka_1-01.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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