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SF_Y18_058-214

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SF_Y18_058-214

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/0255ab18-9fb1-43e2-b274-7ed2a83ff4e5

Title: Ayngwaŋ - Flying fox

Description: This is a recording of a string figure that represents a flying fox. There are several types of flying foxes on Awiakay land and all are considered food. They are shot with bow and arrows when spotted in a tree, but men would not go out for flying-fox hunting trips. A flying fox bone used to be sharpened and made into a needle for sowing bilums, but nowadays this is largely done with chicken bones. Flying fox often occurs in Awiakay myths. When the final figure emerges, two strings are held and the rest of the design drops down like a flying fox hanging head-down from a tree. The figure-maker bounces the ‘flying fox’, saying “kisiŋ gauk, gauk, kisiŋ gauk…”, representing flying fox’s calls.

Date created: 2018-08-18

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: Ayŋgwaŋ

Keyword: Flying fox

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: Darja Munbaŋguapik

Role: Performer

Actor

Full Name: Darja Hoenigman

Role: Researcher

Actor

Full Name: Justin Pupi

Role: Translator

Media Files

Filename: SF_Y18_058-214.JPG

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/e86a57a9-444b-46d5-b013-53519264cbfa

File type: Image

Access: U

Filename: SF_Y18_058-214.mp4

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/2ae24a5b-15d4-48d6-a00b-ced8da7e55e2

File type: Video

Access: U

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