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SF_Y18_250

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SF_Y18_250

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/752d6896-15fb-4332-bfd0-a0557d120c0f

Title: Aiwa - White cockatoos

Description: This is a recording of a string figure that represents white cockatoos (Sulphur-crested Cockatoo; Cacatua galerita). White cockatoos are not eaten, and are one of very few bird species that the Awiakay sometimes keep as pets. White cockatoo frequently occurs as a character in Awiakay myths. Its feathers are used as head decoration. During the all-night song/dance cycle called Kaunjambi the singers/dancers who put white cockatoo’s feathers into their hair are believed to become spirits of the ancestors. When this string figure is finished and the design representing white cockatoos emerges, another move is made and the white cockatoos are said to fly away.

Date created: 2018-11-05

Location

Continent: Oceania

Country: Papua New Guinea

Region: Sepik

Address: Kanjimei village

Project

ID: MDP0441

Name: 0695-MDP0441

Description: This deposit is a result of a documentation of the traditional ecological knowledge of the Awiakay from Papua New Guinea, funded by ELDP between 2023–2025. The project is a collaborative effort between a linguistic anthropologist and Awiakay people, in collaboration with an ethnobotanist. The data deposited in this collection encompass video-recordings of a wide variety of genres of language use related to TEK; a collection of short observational films about Awiakay speakers’ interaction with their environment, including landscapes, plants, animals and spirits; photographs and a list of identified specimens of the local flora and fauna; and an Awiakay–Tok Pisin–English photo-dictionary of local plants and animals.

Topics

Topic: String figures

Keywords

Keyword: Aiwa

Keyword: White cockatoo

Keyword: Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Keyword: Cacatua galerita

Keyword: String figure

Content

Genre: Performative

Languages

Language

Name: Awiakay

Description: Subject Language

Language

Name: Tok Pisin

Description: Working Language

Language

Name: English

Description: Working Language

Actor

Full Name: Lesina Jipanda

Role: Performer

Actor

Full Name: Darja Hoenigman

Role: Researcher

Actor

Full Name: Justin Pupi

Role: Translator

Media Files

Filename: SF_Y18_250.mp4

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/

File type: Video

Access: U

Written Resources

Filename: SF_Y18_250a.txt

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/

File type: Document

Access: U

Filename: SF_Y18_250b.txt

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/

File type: Document

Access: U

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