Making a bilum

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Participants

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June 13, 2020 Gerdine Nepkak, Set

Description

Nepkak was working at her bilum whilst we sat around the fire. I started talking to her about it, how it's made, what feathers were used, if her daughters know how to make it.

Some further text on how bilum are made came up in Interviews about bilums

Texts

Making a bilum
last edited Nov. 18, 2022, 9:57 a.m. by Steve

    Speaker: Nepkak

Orthographic text

enn aganum kigom, aganum mannatom. mannab teb kogu palibigom palibigee nomol ogoo pigeb ilootom ilootub kesi kelelet igwa kigee motom kigee meteb obo umam kamam nobug imi nom kam ogoo kamom ogoo oyann gegee gee egwa kosot kana pigom obo solom obo kobol ilam mandigo pagabigom gee egwa kis kenee kigom oyann gett kosot kenee pigom obo solonn obo soo log obo sigig obob yab steneng yasinn gegee gee egwa ig pee pasogotenim pegeb kobol ilib sosogbb yanim