Alphabetical list of all CEs

Trapping interview

Edited Jan. 26, 2023, 8:39 a.m. by Steve

1. megite ab ogoo hasibee pigeb igwonn ig? (where do you put Drop traps?) 2. hasibee pigoo, om moloomunn mehamonn? teme hasibee pigeb igugund o wig? (is placing a drop trap man's work?) 3. megite sinnol hasibee egee ebis? (what meat does a drop trap catch?) 4. megite honn og...

1-9 Hunting & Fishing

Traps and communication with the dead

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

I sat at a fire in Soso's house and Nambi told the stories. Nambi told me in Pidginː Spirits can be seen in dreams. They used to visit their ancestors and tell them when they had caught something in a trap. If they didn't catch anything, they would try to appease the spirit by making their own old ...

1-9 Hunting & Fishing 5-8 Divination & Revelation 5-10 Rituals & Ceremonies 5-1 Gods & Spirits 5-6 Prayers & Sacrifices

Travelling to Goroka without a wantok

Edited May 9, 2023, 8:36 a.m. by Steve

Questions on whether people could travel to Goroka without a wantok there 1. om logoneng, mondugwa Goroka mu igugund? (Is it right that you don't have any friends in Goroka?) 2. nonn Goroka ilinim eb, selenk egee yanininn ig? (is it hard to go to Goroka?) 3. Goroka ilinim eb megite mehamonn nagonng...

3-29 Travel & Relocation 3-5 National & Global Relationships

Treating a burn

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

2 Year old child (Masa) was brought with a burn on their hand. The hand had been coated in a black substance which turned out to be kapiak sap mixed with ashes....

3-8 Health & Sickness

tree to help weaning

Edited Feb. 22, 2023, 3:11 p.m. by Gerdine

I saw a stick with needles on it and asked what kind of tree it was from. Then Angonde gave me this little text....

1-14 Plants & Animals 3-19 Infant Care & Childhood

Tumbuna story and apology

Edited May 23, 2024, 12:27 p.m. by Steve

A text from Philip. Steve May 2024 It seems they are just concerned that there was bad talk between two old myths and one went away and they want to apologise for it. No detail is given that would help us make sense of what this is. It seems to be an Ingis thing. I've not heard atamalagum ilol or ...

5-2 Cosmology & Mythology

Turning Omu into bilum string

Edited Jan. 31, 2023, 10:05 a.m. by Steve

During Interviews about bilums the process of making string from omu came up. These questions followed up a bit...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering 1-11 Clothing & Adornment

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

Ulumo is named Ulumo

Edited Jan. 25, 2024, 11:46 a.m. by Steve

Asked Ulumo to talk about Mele's child being given his name...

3-2 Identity & Pride

Ulumo straightens a heavy in town

Edited July 7, 2023, 2:29 p.m. by Steve

I got a text about Ulumo's trip to town where he paid the family of Ivan's first wife. Ivan got rid of her for "flirting with the other guys"...

3-3 Marriage & Family 6-3 Standard Procedures & Legal Norms steve-DA

Ulumo's dog is poisoned

Edited Dec. 14, 2023, 12:19 p.m. by Steve

Consultants asked for a story comparison of a shared experience. I did Ulumo's dog being poisoned while we were milling....

1-10 Farming & Ranching

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

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

Uses of ashes

Edited Nov. 18, 2022, 9:34 a.m. by Steve

Questions to follow up Interviews about fire. on what you use ashes for, and seeing if garden ashes and house ashes are different...

1-6 Energy; Power & Fire

Using Tok piksas

Edited April 2, 2024, 12:36 p.m. by Steve

Asking people about the use of illustrations when they talk...

4-10 Oratory & Speeches

Using Tok Pisin for inlaws

Edited Dec. 19, 2022, 8:13 p.m. by Steve

People talking about the fact that the current generation doesn't know the Kovol words for inlaws, so they use tok pisin instead....

2-1 Terminology & Relationships

Vanilla gardens interview

Edited March 15, 2023, 11:17 a.m. by Steve

1. megite honn ogoo simonn mogut ubub igwonn ig? (when do you plant vanilla?) 2. simonn ogut megitet igwig? (how many vanilla gardens do you have?) 3. megite me simonn mogut yogumoo ubub igwinn ig? (what do you plant in a vanilla garden?) 4. megite honn ogoo simonn isu igita simonn utub igwonn ig? (...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Vanilla meeting in Nabarumbe

Edited May 12, 2022, 11:18 a.m. by Rhett

A large group from Torokum and Kokoma were summoned to Nabarumbe in order to discuss vanilla production with a Pal representative from Kamapim (Nacy's company). In the meeting he discussed a desire to make a contract with the people to exclude mining and timber companies from the area. He also discu...

7-5 Labor & Occupation Issues

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

Vanilla proceedure

Edited Aug. 22, 2023, 3:09 p.m. by Steve

I elicited a procedural text from Max in Matat....

1-8 Gardening & Gathering steve-DA

Village court in Kokoma

Edited May 2, 2024, 3:04 p.m. by Steve

A decades old land dispute between Kokoma and Ingis boiled over. Umbee had shot a pig he thought was wild on Ingis land, very close to a guy's house. It was that guy's pig and he was angry and accused the Pusila clan of theft. They gave him the pig (possibly because Amon saw the scene) and later gav...

6-5 Initiation & Execution of Justice

visit after birth

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

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5-8 Divination & Revelation 5-10 Rituals & Ceremonies 3-9 Birth & Dying

Vocabulary for sex

Edited April 29, 2024, 10:49 a.m. by Steve

Conversation turned to Guinea pigs humping and I elicted some vocabulary, then asked if it is the same for people...

3-14 Sex & Reproduction

Voting

Edited Feb. 7, 2024, 11:11 a.m. by Steve

The day after Voting Gerdine asked Angondee to story about it....

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