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Item ID
DKH01-004_amiao
Title Amiao 'The Yuat River'
Description This string figure represents the Yuat River (in Tok Pisin called Biwat). The Awiakay occasionally intermarry with people from Asangamut village, located on the Yuat River. Asangamut is about 6 hours walk from Kanjimei, and the Awiakay often go there to sell betel nuts, cassowary meat or in to get tobacco and goods from town. The Yuat is a deep, fast flowing river, which carries a lot of sand coming downstream from the torrential Maramuni. The Awiakay describe the Yuat as a white river, to distinguish it from their brown-coloured Konmei creek.
This string figure requires two makers. What everybody knows, but often nobody – other than little children – says out loud is that this string figure will not come up if somebody in the vicinity swallows their saliva. The makers and the audience therefore spit while making the figure (which can be viewed as filling the river bed with water, whereas if the saliva is swallowed, the river will remain dry). When the string figure is finished, the children who have been standing around ‘jump in for a swim’.
Origination date 2018-11-05
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Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/004_amiao
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Collector
Darja Hoenigman
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Language as given Awiakay
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Dialect Awiakay
Region / village Oceania
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Operator Tina Gregor
Data Categories
Data Types MovingImage
Discourse type
Roles Darja Munbaŋgoapik : performer
Hilta Waŋgam : performer
Rut Kosi : performer
Daina Tawi : performer
DOI 10.26278/SB9J-QH17
Cite as Darja Hoenigman (collector), Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer), Hilta Waŋgam (performer), Rut Kosi (performer), Daina Tawi (performer), 2018. Amiao 'The Yuat River'. MP4/MXF. DKH01-004_amiao at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/SB9J-QH17
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DKH01-004_amiao-01.mp4 video/mp4 135 MB 00:01:49.248
DKH01-004_amiao-01.mxf application/mxf 1.46 GB
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Collection Information
Collection ID DKH01
Collection title Awiakay string figures
Description Recordings of Awiakay string figures
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Edit access Tina Gregor
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