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Castrating a pig

Edited June 27, 2023, 2:55 p.m. by Steve

Yagil made an ulag that the pig went into head first. His older kids held the back legs while Yagil made an incision with a new razor, followed by scrambling the pig's ball with a sharpened stick. After the flesh was suitably mangled amongut sog jomu was applied to ward off infection. The process wa...

1-10 Farming & Ranching steve-DA

Making a nim halugut

Edited June 27, 2023, 2:54 p.m. by Steve

During Instruments interview Semik gave a full procedural text on making a bamboo drum that I'm going to use for DA...

4-1 Music & Musical Instruments steve-DA

Ebesil hunting trip

Edited June 27, 2023, 2:54 p.m. by Steve

Stories describing the hunting trip Steve and Philip took to Ebesil in 2020...

1-9 Hunting & Fishing steve-DA

Bad behaviour at the nambis

Edited June 26, 2023, 9:46 a.m. by Steve

During Hevis at school interviews Ulumo describes in Q2 all the steaing and cutting people bad behaviour that all the nambis people do. He doesn't want his kids to learn it. His answer could be a good starting point to dig into villains and bad behaviour...

3-16 Heroes & Villains

Not allowing a kid who steals to stay at school

Edited June 26, 2023, 9:18 a.m. by Steve

While interviewing Ulumo about hevis kids experience at schools (Hevis at school interviews) he answers Q1 by talking about how kids who stay at school may learn to steal. If they do that their father will not allow them to stay at school...

3-20 Instilling of Norms and Customs

The garden

Edited June 23, 2023, 11:37 a.m. by Steve

There seems to be a metaphorical use of "The garden coming", which may be a reference to The garden of Eden. # Examples - Interviews about Kaunsil (Set Q5)...

5-3 Sacred Objects & Places cross-ref

Mentions of sorcery

Edited June 23, 2023, 11:36 a.m. by Steve

Mentions of yelimee - sorcerer - during Interviews about Magilon School Ulumo mentions a sorcerer as a reason his kids don't go to that school anymore (Q3). He's now waiting for our literacy class to educate his kids...

5-11 Miracles & Magic cross-ref

Name of spirit that gave the kundu drum

Edited June 23, 2023, 10:05 a.m. by Steve

Augume had heard that I was interviewing about the kundu drum and the Kokoma guys didn't know who made the first one. Apparently I demanded an answer, so these guys from Pusila came to set things straight. ## Takeways ### Vocabulary - amanenel, the spirit who entered man to give him life - soo, the...

4-1 Music & Musical Instruments 5-1 Gods & Spirits

Interviews about Magilon School

Edited June 23, 2023, 8:49 a.m. by Steve

1. Magilon skul undum hooyom wog osob igugund ig oo wig? (is Magilon school teaching students or not?) 2. undum mogom magilon skul yab igugund ig? (which kids attend the school?) 3. Magilon skul nom endet, mehamonn bili neleb igugund? (is it doing a good job?) 4. magilon skil pinot obot ig? (did it ...

8-4 Elementary & Higher Education

Seth funny story for literacy

Edited June 21, 2023, 9:36 a.m. by Rhett

Seth saw in the Nabarubee literacy program that they write down funny stories. He wanted to provide a story so that it can be included when the time comes. I think it is about when, as a child, they were swinging on a vine and someone fell into nettles. I think Seth got in trouble, they twisted hi...

3-24 Humor & Wit

Skin and spirit

Edited June 21, 2023, 9:18 a.m. by Rhett

After Nuumee had come to tell us about the Spirit Spider incident Kavaluku had been talking about what he meant when he said "skin". I asked Kavaluku to clarify what "skin" is, apart from the literal. He descried two things: the essence of food which give body strength, l...

3-8 Health & Sickness 5-1 Gods & Spirits 3-27 Drivers & Emotions

car crash in the ramu

Edited June 20, 2023, 2:45 p.m. by Rhett

during a language eval this was a story I was given. I transcribed it to better understand it it is about when selebee went to the coast and was involved in a pmv rollover...

1-3 Roads & Traffic

Ningalam's out of wedlock birth

Edited June 20, 2023, 11:23 a.m. by Rhett

We were getting Kavaluku's family tree and the issue of Ningalam's birth and Adoption as Kavaluku's sister came up. They gave us the story, first from Nambi but then Kavaluku gave the story as well since Nambi didn't give enough detail (also the first part is them discussing w...

3-3 Marriage & Family 3-14 Sex & Reproduction 3-15 Social Problems & Issues

Nancy attacked

Edited June 19, 2023, 10:45 a.m. by Steve

Ulumo asked me if I had heard about Nancy being attacked or not. He told the story...

6-1 Offenses & Crimes

Conversation about komiti

Edited June 16, 2023, 3:29 p.m. by Steve

working on interviews about kounsil Aiven started talking about komiti as well...

9-3 Councils & Ruling Officials

Punishing a child with hunger

Edited June 15, 2023, 12:31 p.m. by Steve

During Teacher student interviews Set had mentioned that a parent may punish a child for being bad at school with hunger. I didn't catch all the Matat, but I asked Tobee and he confirmed it...

3-28 Behavior Modifications 8-1 Theory & Methods of Education

Who is also shamed by another's actions?

Edited June 14, 2023, 3:54 p.m. by Philip

Undum oomoonn yot neleb i, inann egee hann. Mogom ogoo inann egee hann? (If a child does wrong, he will be shamed. Who also is shamed?) Ina? Inda? Tatugum? Tomond?...

2-2 Family & Clan 3-2 Identity & Pride

Who supports in a hevi?

Edited June 14, 2023, 3:53 p.m. by Philip

Mohis meey hutam pinot nala, mohis mogom egee hologul tugann? (When a young man creates a hevi, who will support him?) Teme palug? Inda? Ina? Tatugum? Tomond?...

2-2 Family & Clan

Kovol church leaders

Edited June 13, 2023, 2:47 p.m. by Philip

Church Leaders in Kovol (see attached picture) *Kuluma was the Lutheran leader until 2003 when he switched and became the New Apostolic leader. The last 2-3 years his eyes have been so bad that he can’t read anymore. He is finding it hard to lead without his sight and is asking for reading glasses...

5-16 Leaders & Controllers

LLG structure

Edited June 13, 2023, 2:40 p.m. by Steve

# Structure PNG has 326 LLGs. The structure looks like this: - Momase Region (a recently devised portmanteau word which combines the first two letters of Morobe, Madang, and Sepik) - Madang Province - Middle Ramu District (the capital is Simbai) - Josephstaal rural LLG - ward 24...

9-1 Form & Rules of Government

Fixing the community water tanks

Edited June 8, 2023, 2:59 p.m. by Philip

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Describing a soap factory

Edited June 8, 2023, 11:35 a.m. by Steve

I described this video https://youtu.be/GUgyHEL_su0 Then I got Mosiligam to try to describe it...

1-12 Vehicles & Machines

Describing making a traditional bow

Edited June 8, 2023, 11:23 a.m. by Steve

After watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTbIrMF0f2M I got people to describe the video to me...

Describing building a snow shelter

Edited June 8, 2023, 11:20 a.m. by Steve

I got people to watch a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCD9b4US224 and then tell me what happened in it...

1-4 Structures & Buildings

making doors

Edited June 8, 2023, 11:07 a.m. by Rhett

when asking about making beds last week the topic of doors also arose. Also a building material called "sul" came up, as in the past it was used to build doors and blains, though it has fallen mostly out of use...

1-5 Furniture & Appliances

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