Alphabetical list of all CEs

Dwarves

Edited May 21, 2024, 11:33 a.m. by Steve

There are some stories known, similarly to Madang about Dwarves. I asked if people knew of them....

5-15 Non-human Beings & Sacred Critters

Eating Fish Caught with Poison Rope

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

I went down to Womune to help Silas trimming the shade trees in his vanilla garden. He needed to get his bush knife from his house. He had eaten some fish caught with poison rope so he wasn't sleeping in his house with the yams. He was staying in Mogam's house....

1-14 Plants & Animals 1-8 Gardening & Gathering 1-9 Hunting & Fishing 1-7 Food & Drink 5-9 Avoidance & Taboo

Ebesil bring geneology

Edited Dec. 22, 2022, 6:02 p.m. by Steve

Sagoba and guys from Mandangus brought a genealogy. They said they want to hear about it at the teaching and were keen to see it in the computer...

5-2 Cosmology & Mythology

Ebesil hunting trip

Edited June 27, 2023, 2:54 p.m. by Steve

Stories describing the hunting trip Steve and Philip took to Ebesil in 2020...

1-9 Hunting & Fishing steve-DA

Election hevi wanbel

Edited Feb. 7, 2024, 10:41 a.m. by Steve

Digicel went down just before the election team arrived. They needed to receive a text from some higher up to tell them whether to continue the polling or not. With no digicel they couldn't do that, and couldn't poll. There was a lot of talk. The Kokoma community presented one of the two electoral o...

5-10 Rituals & Ceremonies 3-15 Social Problems & Issues 9-8 Elections & Exploitations 5-10 3-15

Elilim teen dies climbing a buai

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

A teen died 3 days after falling from a buai. The trunk snapped as he was climbing it and he landed with his wind pipe on a koniak stump. We were too early on in CLA to attempt to elicit information. The family in Elilim was reportedly very angry and Kokoma was visibly shaken. Ulumo asked Steve to c...

3-12 Suicide & Unnatural Death

Elisha predicts food

Edited Nov. 8, 2023, 3:30 p.m. by Steve

Steve attempted to tell the story of 2 Kings 6 where Samaria is besieged. Afterwards the story was read in Tok Pisin and Soso had a go at telling a short version....

5-8 Divination & Revelation transcribe

Engagement

Edited May 1, 2024, 9:57 a.m. by Steve

Does engagement happen?...

3-3 Marriage & Family

Eririm poison rope - overnight fishing trip

Edited July 3, 2023, 10:10 a.m. by Philip

We heard that Eririm was going to put poison rope in the river to catch fish. They were doing it upstream so we went downstream with a few guys to see if we could catch anything that was still stunned coming downstream. The fish were not affected. We were told that Eririm is blaming another tokples ...

6-1 Offenses & Crimes 1-9 Hunting & Fishing 5-9 Avoidance & Taboo Philip-DA

Essential tools

Edited Jan. 4, 2023, 4:23 p.m. by Steve

Descriptions of Essential tools...

1-13 Tools & Instruments

Evisil gives a letter

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

Sogobo from Evisil handed me 2 letters saying they were 'his thinking'....

8-3 Life Skills & Vocational Education

Example CE

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

We arranged with a family beforehand that we'd come with the and see how laundry is done. The family was waiting for us when we arrived, they had remembered we were coming. The children were sent by some ladies to get some buckets and 2 girls went to get water from the public well. We went to an are...

Example

Explanation of CLAHub features

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

This area is for describing the Culture Event (CE) in general. The description field should contain objective information (no interpretation, guesses, musings or language learner POV) about the CE.Your team should work together to build a complete page for each CE. The int...

Family and Clan investegation

Edited June 21, 2024, 4:28 p.m. by Rhett

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2-2 Family & Clan

Fat sow from town

Edited Nov. 17, 2022, 4:55 p.m. by Rhett

there's that Fat sow from town that Keli, Silas, and Moolulu bought for K200. It recently had piglets (Stitzel likely the father) and so I took the opportunity to talk to Keli and them about it...

1-10 Farming & Ranching

Fence interviews

Edited Feb. 13, 2023, 9:44 a.m. by Steve

1. megite henee ogoo tologot mogut ogoo pigeb igwonn ig? (why do you put fences around your garden?) 2. tologot pigoo om mehamonn moloomunn o mehamonn teme? (is putting fences men's or women's work?) 3. mogut tenn ogoo tologot pigeb igwonn? o hyol ogoo pigeb igwonn hyol ogoo hum igu? (do you put fen...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Fight between Kokoma and Nabalume

Edited May 23, 2024, 12:03 p.m. by Steve

Text from Philip...

3-18 Fights; Antagonisms & Battles

Finding a bird

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

Christopher (Mongongam's son) found a bird on the road when coming to Kokoma. When I saw it the bird was sitting on some wood by a group of kids....

Finding a ground spider

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

Whilst cleaning the garden Medolong found a hole in the ground that was appearently the home of a spider. She was digging in the hole with her knife and sticking her hand in to try catch the spider. No spider though. She was trying probably for about 10 min. Muguning was helping her and having a go ...

1-9 Hunting & Fishing

First and second grass

Edited May 10, 2023, 10:50 a.m. by Philip

Checking a text from Set. First and second grass came up. After planting the first grass that comes up and is weeded is yobug yot, but the second one is yobug bili. The yams are ready to harvest a the 2nd grass...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Fish and tobacco interviews

Edited Dec. 14, 2022, 12:05 p.m. by Steve

Questions on: 1. hambolta nemb igwonn ig o wig? (do you eat fish or not?) 2. megite ab ogoo hambolta obob igwonn ig? (where do you get fish?) 3. hambolta honn honn nemb igwonn ig o honn hutam hutam nemb igwonn ig? (how often do you eat fish?) 4. hambolta obob tol ab ogoo libigonn megite ala tugub n...

1-7 Food & Drink

Fishing interview

Edited Jan. 20, 2023, 2:07 p.m. by Gerdine

1. megite mehamonn naga yam? (what's he doing (photo of Spear fishing)) 2. megite me obogolob igu? (what's he holding?) 3. megite me musom pigeb igu? (what's he put on his eyes?) 4. megite tugub yobog obobambolta wondob iguguma ig? (how do you do S...

1-9 Hunting & Fishing

Fixing the community water tanks

Edited June 8, 2023, 2:59 p.m. by Philip

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Flood and Babel story

Edited May 22, 2024, 8:01 a.m. by Steve

Sibil gives the Flood and Babel story. It comes from his Interview about origins...

5-2 Cosmology & Mythology

Follow up questions on adoption

Edited Dec. 8, 2023, 2:52 p.m. by Steve

At what age of development are kids given for Adoption? Do kids inherit the same amount of bamboo and buai trees?...

2-4 Tribe & Nation