Alphabetical list of all CEs

Light coming to Kovol

Edited Dec. 31, 2021, 1:18 a.m. by Steve

On Steve's overnight at Evesil the guys insisted on giving this story and having it recorded before eating. It was of obvious significance to them and they wanted to make sure I didn't miss a single word of it. They wanted to do a in tandem translation to Tok Pisin to make sure not a word was missed...

5-2 Cosmology & Mythology Potential key story

List of age groups

Edited Nov. 25, 2022, 10:51 a.m. by Steve

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3-21 Social Stratification & Status

Listing the Kovol villages

Edited Dec. 21, 2022, 6:16 p.m. by Steve

1. hobol ab, wog unim amee (list the names of the Kovol villages) 2. Kokoma ab hebingondo, wog unim amee (list the small places of Kokoma) 3. hobol wees, wog unim amee (list the names of different languages)...

1-2 Settlements & Communities

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

Lutheran church history in Kokoma

Edited July 6, 2023, 8:25 a.m. by Steve

Sibil wanted to tell me about the Lutheran church history in Kokoma. He told the story in Tok Pisin first and then went to Kovol. This happened straight after Elilim teen dies climbing a buai...

5-14 Denominations & Sects 3-1 History & Trends steve-DA

Mad about daughter and berating wife - Mere

Edited Sept. 1, 2023, 11:32 a.m. by Philip

Mere spoke as if his only daughter had run off with a man. The speech is addressed to his wife. It is harsh....

3-3 Marriage & Family 3-15 Social Problems & Issues 3-27 Drivers & Emotions Philip-DA

Magilong and Ob

Edited March 19, 2024, 9:07 a.m. by Rhett

I asked some guys what the deal is with Magilong and Ob and this is what they said...

3-29 Travel & Relocation 2-5 Outsiders & Non-relatives

Magistrate response to Kokolot murder

Edited July 6, 2023, 8:41 a.m. by Steve

Kokolot from Evesil was murdered by Porosa guys around Nov 2019, we were milling at the time. Evesil had a hevi involving a pig going on their land and wrecking gardens and they sent a delegation to Porosa to talk it through. Porosa jumped them and cut Kokolot with a machete and he died. I asked Set...

6-5 Initiation & Execution of Justice

Magistrates involved in hevis

Edited July 6, 2023, 8:17 a.m. by Steve

During Interviews about komiti Kavaluku talks a lot about how komiti sorts out hevis and also the times magistrates get involved. I think he says that they don't tend to get them involved because the fines they set are too high and no one pays them. Yami who ...

6-3 Standard Procedures & Legal Norms cross-ref

Making a bilum

Edited Nov. 18, 2022, 9:57 a.m. by Steve

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...

1-11 Clothing & Adornment

Making a catapult

Edited Jan. 4, 2023, 6:34 p.m. by Steve

We found a salamata tree and cut a fork out of it's roots in order to make a catapult (onom). The guys whittled it down to size and shape. They cut the two hands of the catapult to be the same length. We did the work on the trail just in case the tree root we had didn't work out for us, we could eas...

1-9 Hunting & Fishing 1-13 Tools & Instruments

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

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

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

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

Making hwa

Edited Jan. 30, 2023, 4:39 p.m. by Gerdine

Nambi is talking about Making hwa because we were eating it....

1-7 Food & Drink

Making it

Edited April 18, 2024, 8:15 a.m. by Steve

Follow up from Interviews about drivers. Semik talks about achieving status as a government worker as way of helping the community. At around 1:30 he talks about what it means to make it, that is having a good house (not necessarily a kapa house) with bilas flo...

3-27 Drivers & Emotions

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

Making morota

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

Ulumo shows us how to make morota...

1-4 Structures & Buildings

Making salab

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

Gerdine makes salab with Angonde...

1-7 Food & Drink

Making salt

Edited Feb. 2, 2023, 10:02 a.m. by Steve

Sibil goes a procedural text on Making salt...

1-7 Food & Drink

Maritim vanilla

Edited Jan. 30, 2023, 4:02 p.m. by Gerdine

Sailas showed us how to polinate the vanilla. Then he gave this text....

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Marking buai

Edited Dec. 31, 2021, 1:18 a.m. by Steve

A buai tree on the road to Torkum had been marked as reserved with a leaf tied around the trunk. Max explained that this meant the guy who owns the tree was telling his relatives to not pick the buai so it could grow larger, or be used for planting....

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Marriage stories

Edited April 30, 2024, 12:37 p.m. by Steve

Philip had elicited some Marriage stories from Kovol guys after telling his own.1...

3-3 Marriage & Family

Max, what do you call your children?

Edited Jan. 30, 2024, 9:25 a.m. by Steve

Max's son is called both David and Carlos. Mongogam can't say David and so uses the name Carlos. I asked Max what he calls his kids to check, and he calls him Carlos, but is able to say David. Mongogam confirms she doesn't say David. His firstborn has a tatugum name, and it wasn't named by uncle...

3-2 Identity & Pride