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DKH01-019_kiakay_kunda
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Title Kiakay kunda ‘Wild pandanus roots’
Description With its tangled aerial prop roots resembling tangled strings, the pandanus tree is closely associated with string figures in general, to the point that some Awiakay suggest that string figures are played when people eat pandanus fruit (others, however, deny that; see Hoenigman, forthcom.) This string figure represents the roots of a wild pandanus. When it is finished, it can continue into another design representing yai tokopa ‘pig’s anus’.
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02: Darja Munbaŋgoapik showing ‘wild pandanus roots’, the final design
03: roots of wild pandanus

Hoenigman, Darja. Forthcoming. Talking about strings: The language of string figure-making in a Sepik society, Papua New Guinea. Language Documentation & Conservation Journal.
Origination date 2018-08-27
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/019_kiakay_kunda
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Collector
Darja Hoenigman
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Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Language as given Awiakay
Subject language(s)
Content language(s)
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Dialect Awiakay
Region / village Oceania
Originating university
Operator Tina Gregor
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Data Types MovingImage
Discourse type
Roles Darja Munbaŋgoapik : performer
DOI 10.26278/TFAW-W769
Cite as Darja Hoenigman (collector), Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer), 2018. Kiakay kunda ‘Wild pandanus roots’ . JPEG/MP4/MXF/TIFF. DKH01-019_kiakay_kunda at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/TFAW-W769
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Collection Information
Collection ID DKH01
Collection title Awiakay string figures
Description Recordings of Awiakay string figures
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
Tok Pisin - tpi
Multiple languages - mul
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Edit access Tina Gregor
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