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Plans for Nambi's house after his death

Edited Dec. 19, 2023, 9:58 a.m. by Steve

What are they going to do with Nambi's house now he's died?...

3-11 Mourning & Adjustment to Death

Planting a garden proceedure

Edited Aug. 28, 2023, 10:21 a.m. by Steve

Attempted to elicit a procedural text, was too short...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Planting a marita garden

Edited Dec. 19, 2022, 1:12 p.m. by Steve

Soso planted a new marita garden next to the road. I asked Glen about it....

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

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

Plants interview

Edited Feb. 24, 2023, 10:45 a.m. by Rhett

Interview Questions 1. Migitee minda minda tolo niyo igugund (what edible things are in the bush) 1.5. Oom mendaga bili oo yot (is it good food or bad) 2. Migitee tugub oomboo nayim munum pigoond yam (how do trees put seeds) 3. Migitee tugub oomboo nayim utee mena bili pigoond yam oo nayim wes mena ...

1-14 Plants & Animals

Playing marbles

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

5 young boys and Ivan were Playing marbles, Semik and I watched. To start the game you throw a marble at a mark on the ground and the closest to the mark gets to go first; anyone who throws beyond the line will go last. You throw your marbles and get a point for either ...

4-2 Games & Hobbies

Playing volleyball

Edited Nov. 8, 2023, 8:50 a.m. by Steve

Steve watched a game of volleyball...

4-3 Sports & Physical Recreation

poisen mohis

Edited April 15, 2024, 12:08 p.m. by Steve

The concept of a poisen mohis has come up a few times and I investigated to see what that was and how it fit together with yelimee...

5-11 Miracles & Magic

Poison fishing proceedure

Edited Sept. 4, 2023, 8:31 a.m. by Steve

Elicited a proceedural text from Joel...

1-9 Hunting & Fishing steve-DA

Polio and measles vaccinations

Edited Oct. 19, 2023, 9:42 a.m. by Steve

The government sent a pair of health workers for measles and polio vaccinations and a vitamin A booster for under 5's. Many Kovol kids got the shots. The health worker giving the injections was Alfons. He was the guy we saw in Musupum in 2019 who was talking about setting up an aid post there....

3-8 Health & Sickness 9-2 Activities & Extent of Government

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

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

Porosa fighting and murder - Ulumo

Edited July 5, 2023, 11:32 a.m. by Philip

Ulumo is telling me the story of the hevi in Porosa. He tells his understanding of how the fighting started and why people were killed. It ends orphans and their uncle wanting to take from Kokoma to his place. (Side note that is not in the story: land and inheritance comes through the father and it ...

6-1 Offenses & Crimes 2-2 Family & Clan 3-18 Fights; Antagonisms & Battles 3-15 Social Problems & Issues Philip-DA

Porosa-Evesil feud

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

Kuluma was telling me about the fight which resulted in Kokolat’s death. He said they had gone to Nabarumbe to discuss a pig Porosa had stolen, but Porosa got upset and killed Kokolat. After discussion among our team and with the Pal team, we encouraged the people to settle the issue in there villa...

6-1 Offenses & Crimes 3-18 Fights; Antagonisms & Battles

Practical jokes

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

After hearing a story about Kavaluku jumping on a wild pig (see Kavaluku jumps on a wild pig) he told me (in Tok Pisin) that he sang out to one of the mums in his family on returning with a pig "Your son has broken his leg, come and help us". The mum came r...

3-24 Humor & Wit

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

Preparing marita to eat

Edited Jan. 31, 2023, 8:20 a.m. by Steve

Texts of people describing preparing food with mariata....

1-7 Food & Drink

Preparing singsing bilas

Edited May 23, 2024, 12:09 p.m. by Steve

From Philip...

4-2 Games & Hobbies 4-8 Dance & Party

Preparing tabacco seeds for planting

Edited Jan. 30, 2023, 4:13 p.m. by Gerdine

Ulumo was taking some tabacco seeds and told us what he was going to do to them to prepare for planting....

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Problems raising other animals

Edited May 23, 2023, 11:59 a.m. by Philip

Questions 1. hulil ege tooloomb iguguma. nom megite pinot eb iguguma ig? (raising pigs, what kind of hevis do you see?) 2. nobug ... ? (chickens) 3. pusi ... ? (cats) 4. sinnol tooloo ... ? (wild animals) 5. ulub ... ? (cassowaries)...

1-10 Farming & Ranching

Problems raising Pigs

Edited May 18, 2023, 2:10 p.m. by Philip

Questions hogot egee tooloomb iguguma. nom megite pinot eb iguguma? (What hevis do you have when raising pigs?)...

1-10 Farming & Ranching

Problems with schooling

Edited June 2, 2023, 3:33 p.m. by Steve

Chatting to Mosiligam and Samuel 2 problems with schools came up. The first and biggest one is not having the money to pay school fees and the second was kids not achieving good grades. I asked about teacher attitudes towards bush kids, but the answer just says that some are good at school and some ...

8-4 Elementary & Higher Education 8-5 Teacher & Student Issues/Relationships

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

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

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