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Poison fishing proceedure

Edited Sept. 4, 2023, 8:31 a.m. by Steve

Elicited a proceedural text from Joel...

1-9 Hunting & Fishing steve-DA

Mad about daughter and berating wife - Mere

Edited Sept. 1, 2023, 11:32 a.m. by Philip

Mere spoke as if his only daughter had run off with a man. The speech is addressed to his wife. It is harsh....

3-15 Social Problems & Issues 3-27 Drivers & Emotions 3-3 Marriage & Family Philip-DA

Speech to a son before marriage - Nambi

Edited Sept. 1, 2023, 11:24 a.m. by Philip

I asked Nambi to address me as if I was his son about to get married....

3-3 Marriage & Family 3-4 Interpersonal & Social Relationships Philip-DA

Correcting a thieving child

Edited Sept. 1, 2023, 11:19 a.m. by Philip

I asked Mula to address me as if I was his thieving child. We were sitting with a bunch of guys in Mere's house. Everyone thought it was funny that he was talking to me like that....

3-15 Social Problems & Issues 6-1 Offenses & Crimes Philip-DA

Building a house proceedural

Edited Sept. 1, 2023, 11:07 a.m. by Steve

Elicited a procedural text...

1-4 Structures & Buildings steve-DA

Instructions on putting a string trap

Edited Aug. 28, 2023, 10:38 a.m. by Steve

An attempt to elicit a proceedural text. Was too short...

1-9 Hunting & Fishing

Planting a garden proceedure

Edited Aug. 28, 2023, 10:21 a.m. by Steve

Attempted to elicit a procedural text, was too short...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Vanilla proceedure

Edited Aug. 22, 2023, 3:09 p.m. by Steve

I elicited a procedural text from Max in Matat....

1-8 Gardening & Gathering steve-DA

tambuna burial practices

Edited Aug. 16, 2023, 9:24 a.m. by Rhett

I forget how it came up, but Silas started talking about how the ancestors disposed of their dead. I took some recordings about the matter and followed up with interviews with other people as well...

3-10 Burial & Funeral Practices

Talking about the roots of Iβeβe's sickness

Edited Aug. 10, 2023, 5 p.m. by Natalie

Iβeβe is sick since years. His wife is dead. Talking about the reason of his sickness and what people believe....

3-8 Health & Sickness 5-9 Avoidance & Taboo 6-1 Offenses & Crimes

How to take care of a sickness or hevi

Edited Aug. 10, 2023, 9:10 a.m. by Philip

Explanatory text about how to deal with sicknesses and hevis...

3-8 Health & Sickness Philip-DA

Nangum kills a pig

Edited Aug. 7, 2023, 5:22 p.m. by Natalie

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1-14 Plants & Animals 1-9 Hunting & Fishing 3-27 Drivers & Emotions

Soso's dad was telling me about how they used to hunt using guns. From his description (off the recording) it must have been shot guns he was talking about (they break in half to reload and shoot many "bb's") then he told a story about when a Magilong person pointed the gun at someone and so they h...

1-13 Tools & Instruments 1-9 Hunting & Fishing 9-1 Form & Rules of Government

Speaking to a bad guest

Edited July 11, 2023, 2:58 p.m. by Steve

Attempting to elicit a logical connector Semik gave me this text about talking to a guest who was stealing from him...

3-25 Etiquette & Ethics

when we first hit the ground

Edited July 11, 2023, 2:07 p.m. by Natalie

Cimemu storires about the time we first hit the ground and how they felt and what they told each other...

2-5 Outsiders & Non-relatives 3-15 Social Problems & Issues 3-20 Instilling of Norms and Customs 8-2 Culture & Social Norm Education

Interviews about komiti

Edited July 11, 2023, 1:57 p.m. by Steve

1. komiti om mogom? (who is the komiti?) 2. megite honn ogoo onn komiti mehamonn oboot? (when did he start that job?) 3. komiti mehamonn om megite mee? (What is the komiti's job?) 4. onn komiti mehamonn ogootala mogom egee ebinn ig? (if he stopped who would do it next?) 5. megite tugub komiti hutee ...

9-3 Councils & Ruling Officials

How to make salt - Kelly

Edited July 7, 2023, 3:52 p.m. by Philip

Natalie recorded this text from Kelly. He explains how they make salt....

1-7 Food & Drink Philip-DA

Ulumo straightens a heavy in town

Edited July 7, 2023, 2:29 p.m. by Steve

I got a text about Ulumo's trip to town where he paid the family of Ivan's first wife. Ivan got rid of her for "flirting with the other guys"...

3-3 Marriage & Family 6-3 Standard Procedures & Legal Norms steve-DA

Cooking salab for workday

Edited July 7, 2023, 11:01 a.m. by Gerdine

On May 26 the community gathered for the building of the walls on Malina and her husband's new house. The men gathered at the building site whilst all the ladies were at Malina's old house in Oburumam Ume. When I arrived there they had already prepared all the tapiok in bamboo and were cooking it. M...

1-7 Food & Drink 3-4 Interpersonal & Social Relationships

how to make a tulip bilum

Edited July 6, 2023, 4:01 p.m. by Gerdine

Mandangu and Natalie were weaving their tulip bilums. I asked Amon for the process of making these bilums....

1-11 Clothing & Adornment

Don't throw blood in the fire

Edited July 6, 2023, 8:52 a.m. by Steve

I did a malaria test on Aiven and after it was done motioned to throw the test in the fire. Ulumo stopped me and held onto it, he didn't want the blood in the fire....

5-9 Avoidance & Taboo

Magistrate response to Kokolot murder

Edited July 6, 2023, 8:41 a.m. by Steve

Kokolot from Evesil was murdered by Porosa guys around Nov 2019, we were milling at the time. Evesil had a hevi involving a pig going on their land and wrecking gardens and they sent a delegation to Porosa to talk it through. Porosa jumped them and cut Kokolot with a machete and he died. I asked Set...

6-5 Initiation & Execution of Justice

Lutheran church history in Kokoma

Edited July 6, 2023, 8:25 a.m. by Steve

Sibil wanted to tell me about the Lutheran church history in Kokoma. He told the story in Tok Pisin first and then went to Kovol. This happened straight after Elilim teen dies climbing a buai...

5-14 Denominations & Sects 3-1 History & Trends steve-DA

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