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DKH01-041_omboyn
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Title Omboyn ‘Garfish’
Description This string figure represents a garfish, in Tok Pisin called long nus pis ‘the long-nosed fish’, which is commonly caught in the Konmei creek. When the river level is low and the Awiakay ‘poison’ the river with the sap of the Derris vine to stun the fish, this up to 20cm long thin fish is more affected than bigger fishes, and therefore relatively easy to spear. As it does not have much meat, is not highly appreciated as food.
When the string figure-maker finishes the final design, he/she says: “I’ll spear it now”, at which point they release the loop from their right index finger, which results in the figure being undone – and the fish is speared.

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02: the final design of omboyn ‘garfish’
Origination date 2018-08-18
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/041_omboyn
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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
Data Categories
Data Types MovingImage
Discourse type
Roles Agnes Mandaynmay : performer
DOI 10.26278/DP4G-7224
Cite as Darja Hoenigman (collector), Agnes Mandaynmay (performer), 2018. Omboyn ‘Garfish’ . JPEG/MP4/MXF/TIFF. DKH01-041_omboyn at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/DP4G-7224
Content Files (4)
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DKH01-041_omboyn-01.jpg image/jpeg 820 KB
DKH01-041_omboyn-01.mp4 video/mp4 39 MB 00:00:32.213
DKH01-041_omboyn-01.mxf application/mxf 456 MB
DKH01-041_omboyn-01.tif image/tiff 68.7 MB
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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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Access Information
Edit access Tina Gregor
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Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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