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Latitude
-8.4859979
Longitude
142.6175
Start Date
1964-09-01
End Date
1964-09-01

Description

Kapo village. Continuation of N53a and b. | "Myth by Benedik of Kapo translated by Tomas Pondis of Male (Bunai) 1. story of man and two masalai. Loss of supernatural aid by violation of prohibition. Masalai live underground. Nale language/PE duet. 2. Myth by Pondis of Maleh (Meyeh) in Nale language. Good clear specimen. Not hard to transcribe. Pondis' text is not translated here. 3. an old man's genealogy a i karim b, etc. 4. story in PE of why I no longer can sire children. a curse. and reciprocal curse of barreness. Pokanau of Kapo. a male able to do the curse. kinship. man/meri usual. kinship same. Pokanau is pikn. bl meri as object of curse. 5. Garamut (slit gong) messaging demonstration. very valuable for musicology. 6. story of making garamut, feast, singsing. Yapan. name is not Benedik but Pendi. Garamut made to summon all to feast. 3 large feats paying for all of his wives. 7. Pene story of a house pamuk in Sirah. nret, name of house? or feast. "all meri i marit long old man. Kapo and Nrabito also made Pamuk. Nuhang also. always preceded by feast. another in Sohoniru. another in Nrano. afterwards, he says, women return to their married houses. another in Yiru. another in Maleh. I did not realize that this was such a common event. the last in Kapo lead to war. Then the practice ended with government taboo."

Sources

ID
tc908c
Source
https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/TS1/N054

Extended Data

ID
TS1-N054
Languages
Nali - nss
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
Publisher
Theodore Schwartz
Contact
admin@paradisec.org.au
License
Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Rights
Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)