Brief description
Audio recordings of stories (mostly secular, sometimes comic/bawdy) in numerous dialects from two language groups in the Morehead District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Recorded by Mary Ayres, Ph.D. during doctoral research conducted in 1979 - 1981. Translations (but not transcriptions) into English provided by local informants who were native speakers of the dialect. Associated funding: National Science Foundation of the United States Government Grant number: BNS 79-20932 Associated publication: This Side, That Side: Locality and Exogamous Group Definition in Morehead Area, Southwestern Papua Mary Clifton Ayres University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology March 1983Created: 26 10 2011
Data time period: 31 10 1979 to 23 08 1981
text: Papua New Guinea
iso31661: PG
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English |
English Language |
Guntai |
Guntai |
Indigenous Studies |
Namat |
Namat |
Nambo |
Nambo |
Pacific Peoples Culture |
Pacific Peoples Culture, Language and History |
Wára |
Wára |
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