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MA1-014
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Title Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #14
Description Side 1:
Ausi Tjumbke crying at death of Sambui (1981-05-17)
Old Man Ngosai telling story about Grandfather's time at Mibini (1981-07-28).

Side 2:
Old Man Ngosai telling story about Grandfather's time at Mibini (cont'd)
Origination date 1981-05-17
Origination date free form 1981-05-17; 1981-07-28
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MA1/014
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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)
Namat - nkm
Wára - tci
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Content language(s)
Wára - tci
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Dialect
Region / village Mibini

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Originating university Australian National University
Operator Julia Colleen Miller
Data Categories primary text
Data Types Sound
Discourse type narrative
Roles
DOI 10.4225/72/56F6ADB7E28C9
Cite as Mary Ayres (collector), 1981. Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #14. MPEG/WAV/JPEG. MA1-014 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56F6ADB7E28C9
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MA1-014-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 8.12 MB 00:08:52.923
MA1-014-B.wav audio/wav 293 MB 00:08:52.895
MA1-014-IMG01.jpg image/jpeg 1.39 MB
MA1-014-IMG02.jpg image/jpeg 1.8 MB
MA1-014-IMG03.jpg image/jpeg 2.6 MB
MA1-014-IMG04.jpg image/jpeg 2.64 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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