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DKH01-051_tasam_kola
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Title Tasam kola ‘Grasshopper’s legs’
Description This string figure represents grasshopper’s legs (literally, grasshopper’s hands). At the same time as being a distinct string figure design, tasam kola is also an indigenously recognised and named sub-procedure.
As a sub-procedure it is performed in the following way:
pull the outer (dorsal) sides of 2∞ a little bit away from the fingers, insert R2∞ into L2∞ and swap the loops (L2∞ is hung on R2 and R2∞ is hung on L2), then pull palms apart again

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02: tasam kola ‘grasshopper’s legs’, final design
03: tasam grasshopper
Origination date 2018-08-16
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/051_tasam_kola
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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

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Originating university
Operator Tina Gregor
Data Categories
Data Types MovingImage
Discourse type
Roles Darja Munbaŋgoapik : performer
DOI 10.26278/GA0H-QY06
Cite as Darja Hoenigman (collector), Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer), 2018. Tasam kola ‘Grasshopper’s legs’. JPEG/MP4/MXF/TIFF. DKH01-051_tasam_kola at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/GA0H-QY06
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DKH01-051_tasam_kola-01.jpg image/jpeg 636 KB
DKH01-051_tasam_kola-01.mp4 video/mp4 35.4 MB 00:00:28.800
DKH01-051_tasam_kola-01.mxf application/mxf 387 MB
DKH01-051_tasam_kola-01.tif image/tiff 68.7 MB
DKH01-051_tasam_kola-02.jpg image/jpeg 49.7 KB
DKH01-051_tasam_kola-02.tif image/tiff 2.01 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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