Collection details
Collection ID JH1
Title Northeast Kiwai (Papua New Guinea)
Description Audio recordings of Northeast Kiwai (Papua New Guinea). Recordings include mainly narratives, with some minimal pair and lexical item elicitation.
This material consists of
a) copies of a series of audiotapes; and
b) a set of written texts from the same period.
It was mostly collected in the early to mid sixties, though some goes back to the fifties. I have no record of the exact dates on which the recordings were made.
Some of the written texts (such as the one titled Tuoma) have been transcribed from the audiotapes, others were dictated to the writer. There is one text, written by a semi-literate Gope man, which I have left in the author’s own hand along with a few short autograph letters written by Uroma speakers.
The original audiotapes, the majority of which are 5” BASF reels, remain in my possession.

Nearly all the material is in the language spoken at the village called Kivaumai on the map Kikori Papua New Guinea prepared by the Royal Australian Survey Corps in 1979. The village (Ne’edai/Gowo’u) at the time of my visits was located on a pleasant black sand beach on the seaward side of Uramu [sic] Island, situated between Paia Inlet on the west & Era Bay on the east in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea; I understand that this village site was subsequently abandoned, perhaps due to the work of the tireless sea.
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/JH1
Collector
John Harris
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Originating university Australian National University
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
Singapore - SG
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Languages
Kiwai, Northeast - kiw
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Region / village Kiwaumai Village, Urama Island, between Paia Inlet & Era Bay, Gulf Province, PNG (see KIKORI PAPUA NEW GUINEA Joint Operations Graphic 1982)
DOI 10.4225/72/56E8253460AC3
Cite as John Harris (collector), 1967. Northeast Kiwai (Papua New Guinea). Collection JH1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56E8253460AC3
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Items in Collection (78)

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C20 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
C3 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
C4 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
C5 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
C6 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
C8 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
C9 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
D11 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
D13 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
D1bis Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
D3 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
D7 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
D8 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
EraMaipua1966 Narrative in the Northeast Kiwai dialect of Era-Maipua View
HINIMOMinimalpairs Putative minimal pairs, Kiwaumai, Urama Island View
HINIMO_TUROMA Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
Hinimo72 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
KAIOO Recording of Urama language and elicitation of some words from Aurai (bush) language View
Q1_63 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
UNNUMBERED Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
UROMAtexts Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
UROMAtextscontd Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
Wave2 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
X20 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
Z10_63 Narratives in eastern Kiwai View
bible Arua Bible Buka Owera Ra Karatoro Owera Ra Kemowamet Owera Ra View
hymns Kiwai Wasare Buka View
vocabulary Kiwai Vocabulary View

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