Culture events with 3-8 Health & Sickness tag

Teaching their kids

Edited May 26, 2023, 7:08 a.m. by Natalie

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3-19 Infant Care & Childhood 3-20 Instilling of Norms and Customs 3-3 Marriage & Family 3-8 Health & Sickness 8-2 Culture & Social Norm Education

Spider bites

Edited May 10, 2023, 3:06 p.m. by Rhett

When Nuumee was telling me about the Spirit Spider event, he also told me how you normally treat a spider bite...

3-8 Health & Sickness

Sick shacks

Edited May 3, 2023, 1:42 p.m. by Rhett

There was a sickness which Meelee was telling me about. I went to investigate a little. at the same time Steve recorded the CE: Going to the river when sick...

3-8 Health & Sickness

pain relief after child birth

Edited Feb. 17, 2023, 5:07 p.m. by Gerdine

I was going with Amon through the photobook I made of the birth we witnessed in Kos (Kati gave birth to her 3rd son). She then explained to me what leeaves they use for painrelief after the birth....

1-14 Plants & Animals 3-8 Health & Sickness

grass cold medicin

Edited Feb. 17, 2023, 4:55 p.m. by Gerdine

I was talking to Ulumo and Angonde about how they could use vix vapo rub to steam when they have a cold. They then showed me this grass that smells similar that they can use too and gave me this text....

1-14 Plants & Animals 3-8 Health & Sickness

Going to the river when sick

Edited Feb. 9, 2023, 2:25 p.m. by Steve

A cough went around Hogumam. Nambi talks about how they went down to the river to stay in a sandil to get better. This isn't the first time I've heard of this, I remember Yatali went to the river when he was sick last year (Yatali gets sick)...

3-8 Health & Sickness

Isol pays Garatan back

Edited Jan. 31, 2023, 9:30 a.m. by Steve

We medevaced Isol for his big belly in July. Garatan provided the K200 for the flight. Isol arrived back in Pusilai in September (cutting his treatment short). In December he killed a pig to wanbel Garatan...

3-8 Health & Sickness 7-7 Borrowing & Lending

Joel gets sick

Edited Jan. 25, 2023, 10:17 a.m. by Steve

I diagnosed Joel with Gonnerea on Wednesday. Thurs told him no medicine would be given and go to town. On Monday they killed a pig to deal with the sick and brought some of the meat to us....

3-8 Health & Sickness 5-10 Rituals & Ceremonies

Yatali gets sick

Edited Aug. 11, 2022, 4:38 p.m. by Steve

Yatali's family told us he was really sick and we needed to see him, bringing some meat for the pig they killed for him. We told them we'd hike to Wasim Baganag tasol. They carried him on a stretched and came and fetched me. I gave cotrimoxizole for pneumonia...

3-8 Health & Sickness 5-10 Rituals & Ceremonies

Sickness causing son to return home

Edited May 12, 2022, 11:07 a.m. by Rhett

I was chatting with Alikajim and he told me how he used to live in Madang until his dad died. This caused him to become sick so he returned home and became well. I then asked him to tell me the story again for the recording...

3-8 Health & Sickness

We don't eat sick pigs

Edited May 11, 2022, 11:03 a.m. by Steve

Yagil's young pig died of sickness in the night. His teenager dug a hole to bury it in. The kids wouldn't touch the dead pig, and used leaves to handle it without actually touching it themselves. Yagil gave me a text explaining that they don't eat pigs that die of sickness....

1-10 Farming & Ranching 3-8 Health & Sickness

Guy gets hit in the chest with a football

Edited May 6, 2022, 8:15 a.m. by Steve

We were playing football and a guy got hit in the chest by the ball pretty hard, winding him. He was carried off the pitch and water was poured on him to cool him down. Then he was given a drink. He continued to lie there and was substituted by another player. The explanation given was that he was ...

3-8 Health & Sickness 4-3 Sports & Physical Recreation

Ningeram got sick with Malaria

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

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3-8 Health & Sickness 5-9 Avoidance & Taboo

Talking about Mula's death

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

We were sitting in Alias's house with Mula's body and talking about sickness and death....

3-8 Health & Sickness 3-9 Birth & Dying

sore care

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

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3-8 Health & Sickness

Menstrual Period

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

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3-14 Sex & Reproduction 3-8 Health & Sickness

Treating a burn

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

2 Year old child (Masa) was brought with a burn on their hand. The hand had been coated in a black substance which turned out to be kapiak sap mixed with ashes....

3-8 Health & Sickness

Meeting to fix Enos' sick

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

Enos was sick for 3 weeks with a cough when it became serious resulting in shortness of breath, fever and mental confusion. Steve diagnosed it as pneumonia. Steve was told that the community had been up all night discussing how to finish Enos' heavy. Steve heard a suggestion that Enos had been a big...

3-8 Health & Sickness 5-7 Purification & Atonement