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SF_Y18_067-229

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SF_Y18_067-229

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/a697c8a1-6799-4232-9142-71710c20f30c

Title: Kambam - Catfish

Description: This is a recording of a string figure that represents kambam, a bottom-dwelling fish with whisker-like barbels round the mouth and a dangerous spike on its back fin, appreciated for its greasy meat with few, easily removable bones. (most likely a type of catfish). When the design of this string figure emerges, the maker says they will get rid of the side bones, and slide the design on their thigh, representing how easy it is to get rid of the bones of this fish.

Date created: 2018-08-27

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: Kambam

Keyword: Catfish

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

Actor

Full Name: Gertrud Apimaŋ

Role: performer

Media Files

Filename: SF_Y18_067-229.mp4

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/ceda41d4-6f2a-45c1-b35e-27292fd3f04e

File type: Video

Access: U

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