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Collection ID DKH01
Title Awiakay string figures
Description Recordings of Awiakay string figures
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01
Collector
Darja Hoenigman
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Operator Tina Gregor
Originating university
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
Tok Pisin - tpi
Multiple languages - mul
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DOI 10.26278/V2A2-BS85
Cite as Darja Hoenigman (collector), 2018. Awiakay string figures. Collection DKH01 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/V2A2-BS85

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Darja Hoenigman
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Items in Collection (72)

Item Title Actions
021_koek Koek ‘Stretcher for displaying a dead body’ View
022_kokosik Kokosik anda kamboya ‘A stone axe with the blade facing down’ View
023_kombaning Kombañiŋ teplakay ‘Painting faces with Annato tree pigment’ View
024_koy_kukuplakay Koy kukuplakay ‘Scraping coconut’ View
025_kuna_pasa Kuna pasa (Tapuka nambay isipon) ‘The front fringe of a grass skirt’ (‘An old woman peeing’) View
026_mamgway Mamgway ‘Eel’ View
027_man Mañ 'Red pandanus fruit' View
028_manjime_kausanga Manjime kausaŋa ‘The ladder of a fig-tree spirit’ View
029_mema_injua_kumapa Mema injua kumapa ‘A huge cunt of a dead woman’s spirit’ View
030_memek_pokolung Memek – pokoluŋ ‘Lightning and thunder’ View

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