Songs and narratives of the Tombulu community (Minahasa district, North Sulawesi province, Indonesia).

Brief description

This collection comprises audio and video data which were collected in 2011-2013 as part of an Australian Research Council funded project (DP110100662). Recordings were undertaken at locations in the Minahasa district: the village of Lolah Satu and the Pinaras suburb in Tomohon town. These communicative events comprise dialogues where speakers discuss family, cultural, or village history, and sing traditional work and prayer songs. Other recordings are procedural narratives in which speakers watch and narrate pre-prepared elicitation videos which show culturally relevant activities, such as how to cultivate cash crops, how to make various handicrafts, and how to prepare traditional cuisine. Most of the Tombulu recordings were collected by Dr. A.R Jukes (La Trobe University). A number were also prepared by Tombulu speech community member Mr. Hendrik Paat, who also transcribed some of the recordings and translated them into Bahasa Indonesia and/or English. Further annotation and translation, as well as preparation for archiving, was completed by Dr. Timothy Brickell (University of Melbourne) with the assistance of Mr. J.E.C. Mandey (University of Heidelberg).