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MA1-001
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Title Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #1
Description Side one: Tjumbkei, Sambui and Waiambu crying at their reunion; Wemenevre Wathe Dance (location: Tjephethak);
Side two: Wemenevre Wathe Dance (location: Tjiekar).
Origination date 1979-11-01
Origination date free form November 1979
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MA1/001
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Collector
Mary Ayres
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Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Language as given
Subject language(s)
Wára - tci
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Content language(s)
Wára - tci
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Dialect
Region / village Rouku, Tjephethak and Tjiekar
Originating university Australian National University
Operator Julia Colleen Miller
Data Categories instrumental music
primary text
song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
Roles
DOI 10.4225/72/56F6AD7330908
Cite as Mary Ayres (collector), 1979. Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #1. MPEG/VND.WAV/JPEG. MA1-001 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56F6AD7330908
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MA1-001-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 42 MB 00:45:52.389
MA1-001-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 1.48 GB 00:45:52.380
MA1-001-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 15 MB 00:16:23.567
MA1-001-B.wav audio/vnd.wav 540 MB 00:16:23.557
MA1-001-IMG01.jpg image/jpeg 1.5 MB
MA1-001-IMG02.jpg image/jpeg 1.83 MB
MA1-001-IMG03.jpg image/jpeg 1.28 MB
MA1-001-IMG04.jpg image/jpeg 1.95 MB
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Collection Information
Collection ID MA1
Collection title Stories from the Morehead District
Description Audio recordings of stories (mostly secular, sometimes comic/bawdy) in numerous dialects from two language groups in the Morehead District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Recorded by Mary Ayres, Ph.D. during doctoral research conducted in 1979 - 1981. Translations (but not transcriptions) into English provided by local informants who were native speakers of the dialect.

Associated funding:
National Science Foundation of the United States Government
Grant number: BNS 79-20932

Associated publication:
This Side, That Side: Locality and Exogamous Group Definition in Morehead Area, Southwestern Papua
Mary Clifton Ayres
University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology
March 1983
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
English - eng
Guntai - gnt
Nambo - ncm
Namat - nkm
Wára - tci
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