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Salab interviews

Edited Dec. 9, 2022, 12:25 p.m. by Steve

Interviews about Making salab and mamuni: 1. megite tugub salab nemb igwonn ig? (how do you eat tapiok?) 2. megite tugub salab hangib igwonn ig? (how do you fold tapiok?) 3. salab sasa hwam ogoo pigeb eteb nemb igwonn ig o wig? (do you ever boil chunks of tapiok to eat?) ...

1-7 Food & Drink

Reasons for food taboos

Edited Dec. 9, 2022, 11:19 a.m. by Steve

In Food tambu interviews Dramat says that his parents and older siblings told him about food taboos and he follows what they say without knowing why....

3-20 Instilling of Norms and Customs

Food tambu interviews

Edited Dec. 9, 2022, 11:05 a.m. by Steve

Questions asking about Food tambus related particularly to inlaws 1. teme magog asam olomotowa, nonn magog eggee nemb igwonn ig o wig? (if a lady stepped over a buai would you eat it?) 2. teme tabil asam olomotowa, nonn magog eggee nemb igwonn ig o wig? (if a lady step...

1-7 Food & Drink

Tools and utensils TPR

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 3:05 p.m. by Steve

Basic level tools...

1-13 Tools & Instruments

Kavaluku jumps on a pig

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 3:02 p.m. by Steve

Kavaluku tells the story of jumping on a wild pig...

1-10 Farming & Ranching

Making salab

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 3:01 p.m. by Steve

Gerdine makes salab with Angonde...

1-7 Food & Drink

Kavaluku talks about yesterdays weather

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 12:16 p.m. by Steve

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1-1 Geography & Weather

Mongogam's pengam

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 12:14 p.m. by Steve

Mongogam invited the team to see her pengma (exchange payment ceremony)...

3-3 Marriage & Family 3-17 Celebrations; Rites & Initiations

Making morota

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 12:07 p.m. by Steve

Ulumo shows us how to make morota...

1-4 Structures & Buildings

Pollinating vanilla

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 12:06 p.m. by Steve

Steve and Sigangule went out to pollinate some vanilla plants...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Butchering an hesegenee

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 12:03 p.m. by Steve

Evisil guys caught an hesignee and butchered it...

1-7 Food & Drink

Planting yams

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:58 a.m. by Steve

Kavaluku invited us to his garden to plant yams. The day before the rubbish had been cooked, and it was still smouldering away. The garden was split into 4 different areas, but we worked to plant them all together. We used the seeds marked for each area on each area. First we laid out the seeds wher...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Cooking food in a pot

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:56 a.m. by Steve

Basic level Cooking food in a pot...

1-7 Food & Drink

Spear fishing

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:54 a.m. by Steve

A few guys stripped down to their shorts while many more watched on. They each had goggles and a fishing spear. They took turns diving in a deeper part of the river and shooting fish. They shot a few small fish. Ivan grabbed a long bamboo pole and used it to disturb the rocks that large fish like to...

1-9 Hunting & Fishing

Processing saksak

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:51 a.m. by Steve

Hiked down to the river with Kavaluku. He had borrowed one of our tarps to make a sandil at the work site. They had built a bamboo aqueduct to move water to the washing site. The young men hammered the saksak. Kavaluku, Was and Kukuas squeezed the saksak pulp in a basket so the starch fell into a li...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Making a pig fence

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:50 a.m. by Steve

Kavaluku invited me and Philip to attend. Moko had called upon the Torokum community to help him build the top fence for his new garden. Moko came and got us. Upon arriving ladies served us food and a bowl of buai and tobacco was passed around. The men and children began work shortly afterwards, whi...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering 3-21 Social Stratification & Status 3-22 Daily & Cyclic Routines 7-11 Welfare & Assistance

Drying fish to eat

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:45 a.m. by Steve

We dried and ate a fish that had been caught...

1-7 Food & Drink

Gathering omu sog

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:43 a.m. by Steve

Basic level on gathering omu sog...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Digging yams

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:37 a.m. by Steve

Kavaluku invited me to dig yams in his garden. We arrived there at about 10am, a few ladies were there already. We sat by the river (close by) and cut sticks for Digging yams. Going to the garden we cleared the grass, uncovered the yams, loosened the dirt with sticks and ...

2-2 Family & Clan 1-8 Gardening & Gathering 3-4 Interpersonal & Social Relationships

Cutting trees in a new garden

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:35 a.m. by Steve

Samuel took us to a garden. The ladies cleaned the garden and then we men worked. Starting at the top of the garden we cut trees about arm thick or less down with machetes. We cut the trees at about knee height or higher to leave handholds to climb up and down while gardening later and I was told al...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Making mamuni

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:31 a.m. by Steve

Angondi had gotten a couple of bamboo's for us so we could make mamuni with kongkong. This kind of mamuni is more common in Torokum and Evesil. They make tapiok mamuni here. We used small and big, white and red kongkongs. First we peeled them, and then grated them with a kanda. Some kids were summo...

1-7 Food & Drink

Types of buai

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:22 a.m. by Steve

Kavaluku lists the types of buai there are...

1-7 Food & Drink

Salt follow up

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 10:46 a.m. by Steve

Questions to confirm names of trees used and method for salt and kamban making 1. tutugulum yog megite mehamonn neleb iguguma ig? (what do you use tutugulum trees for?) 2. megite tugub tutugulum obob tomonn neleb iguguma ig? (how do you make salt from it?) 3. haginam yog megite mehamonn neleb igu...

Getting ears pierced

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 9:44 a.m. by Steve

Natalie and I visited Rut and Silas in their home. We noticed that Rut had one of her ears pierced and started talking about it. We did this in Tok Pisin. Then we got a recording on how it's done. Steve followed up with some interview questions....

1-11 Clothing & Adornment

Kavaluku explaining how the land was inhabited and taken from spirits

Edited Dec. 7, 2022, 2:46 p.m. by Rhett

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5-9 Avoidance & Taboo 3-27 Drivers & Emotions 2-4 Tribe & Nation

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