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Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/ab57af54-4f69-402f-a973-062015932940

Title: How my father paid tribute in food to his in-laws in order to make his children ritually clean

Description: Angela Yilaten tells about how her father "washed" her and all of his other children shortly after they were born. The Aro word meaning 'wash', in this case, refers not to the physical act of washing, but is rather used as a metaphorical term for a traditional ritual in which, shortly after a child is born, the father pays tribute in food to the child's relatives on the mother's side of the family. It is believed that after the payment of tribute in food is carried out, the newborn child becomes ritually clean (i.e. the child is "washed"). The speaker describes in detail how her father gathered sago, root vegetables, wild bird eggs, and wild animals in order to pay the tribute. This bundle contains: (1) an mp4 video file; (2) an extracted wav audio file; (3) a time-aligned transcription and translation (into English and Tok Pisin) in ELAN; (4) a morphologically glossed annotation in ELAN exported from FLEx.

Date created: 2022-09-15

Location

Continent: Oceania

Country: Papua New Guinea

Region: Kolembi ward, Palai LLG, Nuku District, Sandaun Province

Address: Brau village, Kolembi ward, Palai LLG, Nuku District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea

Project

ID: IGS0362

Name: 0613-IGS0362

Description: This is a collection of video recordings of narratives, conversations, and songs in the Aro language [tei], a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. These recordings were made during two trips to Papua New Guinea, in September-November 2019 and August-October 2022. All of the recordings were made in Brau, Selep, and Mup villages, which are part of Kolembi ward, Palai LLG, Nuku District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.This collection consists of the following: (1) around 16 hours of video recordings of narratives, conversations, and songs; (2) around 8 hours of annotations in ELAN; (3) a description of the orthography developed by the researcher and used throughout this project; (4) a FLEx database with a lexicon and around 8 hours of morphological glossings; (5) around 7 hours of audio recordings of elicitation sessions; (6) around 200 photographs taken during four trips to the Aro speaking area made in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2022; (7) an Aro-English-Tok Pisin dictionary; (8) a collection of stories in Aro with translations into English and Tok Pisin.In addition to materials in the Aro language, this collection also contains a few recordings in the Mukweym and Orok languages. Mukweym and Orok are both closely related to Aro and spoken in areas that are geographically adjacent to the Aro speaking area. The level of similarity and mutual intelligibility between Aro, Mukweym, and Orok seems to be roughly comparable to that between Spanish and Portuguese. There are also a few recordings in the Oru and Srenge languages, which are also Torricelli languages, but are not closely related to Aro.There are also several songs in the Tumleo language (an Austronesian language spoken in an area near Aitape, about 30 km to the northwest of the Aro speaking area). These songs are performed by a native speaker of Aro who is not a speaker of the Tumleo language, but knows these songs due to their importance in traditional Aro culture.

Topics

Topic: Ritual purification

Topic: Paying tribute

Topic: Washing

Topic: In-law relatives

Keywords

Keyword: Ritual cleanliness

Keyword: Washing

Keyword: Tribute

Keyword: Food

Keyword: Newborn children

Keyword: Sago

Keyword: Vegetables

Keyword: Meat

Keyword: Eggs

Keyword: Gardening

Keyword: Hunting

Keyword: Family relations

Keyword: Maternal relatives

Keyword: In-laws

Content

Genre: Personal narrative

Languages

Language

Name: Aro

Description: Subject Language

Language

Name: English

Description: Working Language

Actor

Full Name: Angela Yilaten

Role: speaker

Actor

Full Name: Andrey Drinfeld

Role: recorder

Actor

Full Name: Andrey Drinfeld

Role: annotator

Actor

Full Name: Ignas Nymbut

Role: consultant

Media Files

Filename: aro078.MP4

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/fd5625f4-bbc4-4058-9436-6699191da230

File type: Video

Access: O

Filename: aro078.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/f97871b2-3673-44ba-b102-355cd270f2df

File type: Audio

Access: O

Written Resources

Filename: aro078_20230522.eaf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/0a818127-a41e-4804-b845-e1db2d9ec265

File type: ELAN

Access: O

Filename: aro078-int_20230522.eaf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/e0fb498d-3ad1-4801-bed8-9a814069bc3d

File type: ELAN

Access: O

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