Recording from the Hansens about pigs...
1. ig undum teme igu, ab ogoo monduguwa igugund, ab hulum ogoo mohis wees igugund. undum teme honn honn ogoo heb igung, monduguwa heb igung, mohis pubunn mu heb igung, hooyom wig. stoli amee (talk about family, friends and strangers) 2. undum hebigondoo igugund, undum agabi, mohis mee, teme palug, m...
I asked Nambi to address me as if I was his son about to get married....
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...
Talking with Renda's dad (our most frequent visitor from Magilong) about children, shame, responsibilities, and meeting with a clan leader....
Talking with Renda's dad (our most frequent visitor from Magilong) about komitis and their responsibilities....
Kavaluku invited me to dig yams in his garden. We arrived there at about 10am, a few ladies were there already. We sat by the river (close by) and cut sticks for Digging yams. Going to the garden we cleared the grass, uncovered the yams, loosened the dirt with sticks and ...
Steve and Rhett gathered saksak leaves with Kavaluku. Next day Steve and Gerdine went to see them sowing them up. They're making a haus win for the sengaleng party, then afterwards the morota will be used on a new house...
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....