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MA1-20
(Collection Details)
Title Story translations and index; tapes index
Description Handwritten notes, translated by the collector with assistance from local informants
Origination date 1981-01-01
Origination date free form 1979-1981
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MA1/20
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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)
Guntai - gnt
Nambo - ncm
Namat - nkm
Wára - tci
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Content language(s)
English - eng
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Originating university Australian National University
Operator Julia Colleen Miller
Data Categories primary text
Data Types Text
Discourse type narrative
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DOI 10.4225/72/58c956fbbb9a2
Cite as Mary Ayres (collector), 1981. Story translations and index; tapes index. PDF. MA1-20 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/58c956fbbb9a2
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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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Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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