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DKH01-062_wao_toiplakay
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Title Wao toiplakay ‘Threading sago grubs’
Description Sago grubs are a delicacy, and an important part of the Awiakay diet. While they are usually boiled and eaten with sago pudding, they are sometimes threaded on a rope and smoked. Preserved in this way they last longer, and can be taken to another bushcamp, or to another village for trading.
This string figure represents threading the grubs. When it is finished, the maker says: “I’m pulling them off now”, and pulls the string to undo the pattern, as if pulling the sago grubs off a skewer, one by one.

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02: wao toiplakay ‘thredaing sago grubs’ string figure design
03: wao ‘sago grubs’
04: wao toimba ‘threaded smoked sago grubs’
Origination date 2018-08-18
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/062_wao_toiplakay
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Collector
Darja Hoenigman
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Language as given Awiakay
Subject language(s)
Content language(s)
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Dialect Awiakay
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Originating university
Operator Tina Gregor
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Roles Darja Munbaŋgoapik : performer
DOI 10.26278/2SH6-0867
Cite as Darja Hoenigman (collector), Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer), 2018. Wao toiplakay ‘Threading sago grubs’. JPEG/MP4/MXF/TIFF. DKH01-062_wao_toiplakay at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/2SH6-0867
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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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Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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