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Arrival of western clothing

Edited Nov. 17, 2022, 1:14 p.m. by Steve

Following interviews about clothes I was after the procedure the Kovol ancestors used to make their bark clothes. I got stories about how those clothes were worn on replaced instead...

Uses for battery acid

Edited Nov. 15, 2022, 2:07 p.m. by Steve

Follow up to Interviews about batteries, asking more about uses for the acid. Looking for more sources on poisoning dogs....

1-6 Energy; Power & Fire

Francis house burns down

Edited Nov. 14, 2022, 9:08 p.m. by Steve

Interviewing Dramat about fire I asked if they had any stories of houses burning down. Francis' house burned down a while before we moved in, Kelly told the story...

1-6 Energy; Power & Fire

Natalie and I asked a group of people whether some could come with us to teach us about collecting firewood. We gathered up bushknives and took of. It was only girls and ladies that came with us. We did a 10 min walk and came to an old garden where we were told everyone gets their firewood. The dry...

1-6 Energy; Power & Fire

Clan tree for one of the torokum clans and its story

Edited Nov. 14, 2022, 11:13 a.m. by Rhett

We had visited Egigol Ume and next to Abanel's house there was a tree which had attracted a lot of butterflies. Stacie asked for a cutting and it turns out there was deeper significance to the tree. Kavaluku wanted to tell the stories and customs related to the tree...

1-14 Plants & Animals 2-2 Family & Clan 1-8 Gardening & Gathering 3-10 Burial & Funeral Practices 5-3 Sacred Objects & Places

Interviews about electricity

Edited Nov. 14, 2022, 9:08 a.m. by Steve

1. solar mohis hyol ogoo ebemind o mohis hyol solar mu ebemind ig? (who has solar?) 2. solar onn megitee mehamonn noloo? (what does it do?) 3. solar megite tugub mehamonn naga yam? (how does solar work?) 4. solar bateli tenn lomotob igu o wig? (does solar charge every battery?) 5. electricity om meg...

1-6 Energy; Power & Fire

Interviews about fire

Edited Nov. 10, 2022, 10:54 a.m. by Steve

Interviews Steve has tried with the questions: 1. mut onn megite mehamonn noloo? (what work does fire do?) 2. mogom mut ebinn? mohis o temee? (who gets firewood, men or women?) 3. megitet igub mut obob igwonn ig? (when do you make a fire?) 4. megite ab ogoo mut pigeb igwonn ig? (where do you p...

1-6 Energy; Power & Fire

Story about the 1st fire

Edited Nov. 9, 2022, 3:27 p.m. by Steve

After Semik interview he was able to give a story about the first man and fire...

1-6 Energy; Power & Fire

Making a fire

Edited Nov. 8, 2022, 1:43 p.m. by Steve

Natalie and I wanted to roast some food on the fire. Samuel and Ulomo came to help us build the fire. I tried lighting it with the moss on some twigs. Ulomo said that only in dry season that will work, now in wet season they use plastic to light a fire. They first put little pieces of wood down and ...

1-6 Energy; Power & Fire

Selling vanilla to a buyer

Edited Sept. 21, 2022, 12:49 p.m. by Steve

After checking a text by Semik I asked Soso to tell me about selling vanilla to a street buyer...

7-13 Buying; Selling & Consuming

Mongogam's Dad's house burns down

Edited Sept. 19, 2022, 8:49 a.m. by Steve

After Samson telling the story of his house burning down Mongogam retells a childhood story of her dad's house burning down...

1-4 Structures & Buildings

Samson's house burned down

Edited Sept. 19, 2022, 8:43 a.m. by Steve

Samson's house burned down with everything in it. He came to ask us why it had happened....

1-4 Structures & Buildings

Preparations for Kigwam's sengaleng

Edited Sept. 19, 2022, 8:20 a.m. by Steve

Steve and Rhett gathered saksak leaves with Kavaluku. Next day Steve and Gerdine went to see them sowing them up. They're making a haus win for the sengaleng party, then afterwards the morota will be used on a new house...

1-4 Structures & Buildings 3-3 Marriage & Family 3-4 Interpersonal & Social Relationships

Dramat explains building a house

Edited Sept. 2, 2022, 2:48 p.m. by Steve

A text given in response to my own attempt to talk about the subject...

1-4 Structures & Buildings

Burial of placenta

Edited Aug. 30, 2022, 3:17 p.m. by Steve

Kavaluku explains that a baby cries as his "big brother" (the placenta) is buried....

3-9 Birth & Dying 3-10 Burial & Funeral Practices

Baby is born

Edited Aug. 30, 2022, 3:12 p.m. by Steve

Stacie shoved her hand in a lady and pulled a baby out. Mum is Katy and Dad is Moses...

3-9 Birth & Dying

Dramat cares for orphaned kittens

Edited Aug. 26, 2022, 11:14 a.m. by Steve

Dramat's cat got caught in a trap and died shortly after it had given birth. He tried to feed the kittens, but they all died. He expresses happiness at receiving a cat from the Hansens and sadness that it dies....

1-10 Farming & Ranching 3-27 Drivers & Emotions

Vanilla money given as a group payment

Edited Aug. 26, 2022, 11:10 a.m. by Steve

Semik explained a bit of paper he was holding to me that had names on it with amounts of Kina by each name...

7-15 Saving & Investing 7-13 Buying; Selling & Consuming

Dramat makes a toy bunara

Edited Aug. 25, 2022, 12:06 p.m. by Steve

Dramat's kid was whiney and asked for a bow. Dramat made one quickly from bamboo and gave it to him...

3-19 Infant Care & Childhood 4-3 Sports & Physical Recreation

Yatali gets sick

Edited Aug. 11, 2022, 4:38 p.m. by Steve

Yatali's family told us he was really sick and we needed to see him, bringing some meat for the pig they killed for him. We told them we'd hike to Wasim Baganag tasol. They carried him on a stretched and came and fetched me. I gave cotrimoxizole for pneumonia...

3-8 Health & Sickness 5-10 Rituals & Ceremonies

Political rally

Edited July 12, 2022, 10:12 a.m. by Steve

Nancy came from town to run as a candidate in the LLG election. Team members from other candidates (don't know if they travelled with her) and Nancy held a gathering on the football field. 4-5 candidates (or representatives) stood up and promoted their candidate in Tok Pisin. Each village leader (an...

9-8 Elections & Exploitations

Voting card

Edited June 28, 2022, 9:02 a.m. by Steve

A young guy had brought laminated cards for one of the LLG candidates. Voters who vote for him are promised pieces of roofing kapa because the candidate owns a factory. Names were taken in an exercise book that will go to the candidate's team....

9-8 Elections & Exploitations

Choosing who to vote for

Edited June 28, 2022, 8:57 a.m. by Steve

On a chopper day leaders and young men from Kokoma, Torokum and Kobumbua met in the lotu to discuss who to vote for. 2 Young guys were promoting a candidate and writing names of those who intend to vote in a notebook. The discussion was focussed on who to vote for for the Josephstaal LLG, with not m...

9-8 Elections & Exploitations

Undum sangeleng

Edited June 22, 2022, 8:20 a.m. by Steve

We were invited for what we thought was a pengam. It turned out to be some kind of amamas kaikai where a 10 year old was giving food to her uncles....

3-17 Celebrations; Rites & Initiations

Mongogam can't call her Son by name

Edited June 17, 2022, 8:04 a.m. by Steve

Mongogam calls her son David, "Carlos". Her son was named after her brother in law and she can't say David, so she says Carlos...

2-2 Family & Clan 5-9 Avoidance & Taboo

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