Nabu - Stories from the Morehead District

PARADISEC Catalog

Collection details

Collection ID	MA1
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
Archive link	https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MA1
Collector	Mary Ayres Find similar
Operator	Julia Colleen Miller
Originating university	Australian National University
Countries	Papua New Guinea - PG To view related information on a country, click its name
Languages	English - eng Guntai - gnt Nambo - ncm Namat - nkm Wára - tci To view related information on a language, click its name
Region / village
DOI	10.4225/72/56E975199EED7
Cite as	Mary Ayres (collector), 1979. Stories from the Morehead District. Collection MA1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56E975199EED7

Access information

Edit access	Amanda Harris Nick Ward
Data access conditions	Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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Items in Collection (20)

Item	Title	Actions
001	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #1	View
002	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #2	View
003	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #3	View
004	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #4	View
005	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #5	View
006	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #6	View
007	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #7	View
008	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #8	View
009	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #9	View
010	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #10	View
011	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #11	View
012	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #12	View
013	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #13	View
014	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #14	View
015	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #15	View
016	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #16	View
017	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #17	View
018	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #18	View
019	Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #19	View
20	Story translations and index; tapes index	View