Culture events with 1-9 Hunting & Fishing tag

Origin of Kundu Drum

Edited Dec. 31, 2021, 1:18 a.m. by Philip

Sitting in Soso's house around a fire telling stories. We were talking about the big singsing they want to do for us later this year and they don't have enough kundu durms. Nambi told the story, but his wife and Tapulang knew all the details and corrected him quite a bit. This is a women's story....

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Traps and communication with the dead

Edited Dec. 31, 2021, 1:18 a.m. by Philip

I sat at a fire in Soso's house and Nambi told the stories. Nambi told me in Pidginː Spirits can be seen in dreams. They used to visit their ancestors and tell them when they had caught something in a trap. If they didn't catch anything, they would try to appease the spirit by making their own old ...

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Hunting for crabs

Edited Dec. 31, 2021, 1:18 a.m. by Gerdine

Whilst Natalie and I were out with a bunch of ladies and kids for Getting firewood, some kids started looking for holes where crabs would lives, to dig them out and eat them later. Sapet showed us how the hole is dug out with a knife and by hand. When the crab is foun...

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Kavaluku jumps on a wild pig

Edited Dec. 31, 2021, 1:18 a.m. by Steve

Kavaluku told a story about a time he stumbled into a wild pig and jumped on it, pinning it down until someone else came and killed it. There was an element of humour to revealing to his family that he'd caught a pig, see Practical jokes....

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Finding a ground spider

Edited Dec. 31, 2021, 1:18 a.m. by Gerdine

Whilst cleaning the garden Medolong found a hole in the ground that was appearently the home of a spider. She was digging in the hole with her knife and sticking her hand in to try catch the spider. No spider though. She was trying probably for about 10 min. Muguning was helping her and having a go ...

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