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SF_Y18_065-221

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/8c16e6ca-9538-47b4-b0fe-b66038c8827a

Title: Kamaŋ - Crocodile

Description: This is a recording of a string figure that represents a crocodile. There are few crocodiles (Crocodylus novaeguineae) in the upper Konmei Creek past Kanjimei village, but they inhabit lake Muŋam, which is upriver from where Kanjimei village is located, and they sometimes make their way out into the creek. The crocodile is a highly prized kill for its fatty meat, and the Awiakay will sometimes sell the skin of a young crocodile in Angoram or in Wewak. It is believed that a thunderstorm will arise when someone kills a crocodile in the river, as crocodiles are water spirits. The Awiakay are a society that is closer to the Highlands, and do not have an elaborate crocodile cult like their downriver Karawari neighbours. However the crocodile features prominently in Awiakay mythology.

Date created: 2018-08-15

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: Kamaŋ

Keyword: Crocodile

Keyword: Crocodylus novaeguineae

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: Sipola Wambrumaŋ

Role: Performer

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_065-221.JPG

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/82c2605c-c971-4e27-93bc-b7fadb20c576

File type: Image

Access: U

Filename: SF_Y18_065-221.mp4

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/5574c7f6-15bf-47d2-b229-b46dd57c2d8e

File type: Video

Access: U

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