| 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
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| Operator |
Julia Colleen Miller
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| Originating university |
Australian National University |
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| 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 |
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