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
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Operator Julia Colleen Miller
Originating university Australian National University
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
English - eng
Guntai - gnt
Nambo - ncm
Namat - nkm
Wára - tci
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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
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Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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Items in Collection (20)

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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

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