Alphabetical list of all CEs

Food interviews first round

Edited Nov. 30, 2022, 11:56 a.m. by Steve

Interviews aiming to answer the questions: 1. megite mena nonn honn tenn nemb igwonn ig? (what do you eat every day?) 2. su megite mena nongom ig? (what did you eat today?) 3. hoomee megite mena nomom ig? (what did you eat yesterday?) 4. megite mena nom honn ubiyab nemb igwonn ig? (what do y...

1-7 Food & Drink

Food interviews second round

Edited Dec. 2, 2022, 2:53 p.m. by Steve

Questions about food prep and food availability. 1. mena om hwam ogoo pigeb iguguma om megite me? (what food do you put in pots?) 2. mena om mut ogoo pigeb iguguma om megite me? (what food do you put in the fire?) 3. megite mena ologom nemb iguguma ig? (what food do you eat raw?) 4. ilis honn o...

1-7 Food & Drink

Food tambu interviews

Edited Dec. 9, 2022, 11:05 a.m. by Steve

Questions asking about Food tambus related particularly to inlaws 1. teme magog asam olomotowa, nonn magog eggee nemb igwonn ig o wig? (if a lady stepped over a buai would you eat it?) 2. teme tabil asam olomotowa, nonn magog eggee nemb igwonn ig o wig? (if a lady step...

1-7 Food & Drink

Food tambus

Edited Dec. 7, 2022, 1:48 p.m. by Steve

During Food interviews second round Silas started talking about the different Food tambus. I cut it out and put it here for further study. Follow up questions were asked in Food tambu interviews...

1-7 Food & Drink

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

Friends in other places interviews

Edited May 9, 2023, 8:44 a.m. by Steve

1. honn ogoo ab hulum eb nagonn, mogom tol ab hogog egee inininn? (when you go to town who's house do you sleep in?) 2. moo ab hulum igu o wig? (do you have friends in town or not?) 3. moo Seva, Bunabun igu o wig? (do you have friends in Sevan or Bunabun?) 4. moo ab wees igu endetenn Goroka o Wewak,...

3-5 National & Global Relationships

Galatam gets a chainsaw

Edited Nov. 28, 2023, 2:16 p.m. by Steve

Galatam as Kansol received a chainsaw from the government. I asked him about it....

9-2 Activities & Extent of Government

Galatam talks about his work as kaunsil

Edited Nov. 28, 2023, 2:50 p.m. by Steve

Steve interviewed Galatam about his role as kaunsil...

9-3 Councils & Ruling Officials

Garden interview

Edited March 10, 2023, 3:16 p.m. by Steve

1. mena galas salab nog mogut ubwa, mena hyol ogoo etelig aga o wig? (do things you plant sometimes get sick?) 2. nonn mogut ubinim eb, nonn hutam ubub igwonn o mohis esigim lub ubub iguguna? (do you plant alone or in a group?) 3. mogut mehamonn nenim eb nagonn, honn ogoo mohis meemunum utwa wog nag...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Garden types interview

Edited March 15, 2023, 8:43 a.m. by Steve

Questions to try and see if there are different 'types' of gardens. 1. megite mogut ubub igwonn ig? endetenn galas mogut, mena mogut, magog mogut. tenn wog amee (call the different kids of gardens you plant) 2. megite me mena mogut yogumoo ubu iwgonn ig? (what do you plant inside yam gardens?) 3....

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Gardening procedural texts

Edited July 3, 2023, 2:29 p.m. by Steve

Steve was practising with gardening as a procedural text. Here are texts from Kovol people on that topic....

1-8 Gardening & Gathering steve-DA

Gathering omu sog

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:43 a.m. by Steve

Basic level on gathering omu sog...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Gathering the kapa for services

Edited Jan. 9, 2024, 10:07 a.m. by Steve

During conversations about taxes Nancy's effort to build an aid post was mentioned and seemed to be thought of as the government taxing the and not providing services....

9-7 Taxation & Public Benefits

Gavman komiti responsibilities

Edited June 2, 2023, 11:06 a.m. by Philip

Talking with Renda's dad (our most frequent visitor from Magilong) about komitis and their responsibilities....

9-2 Activities & Extent of Government

General questions about sickness

Edited Sept. 13, 2023, 9:57 a.m. by Steve

1. etilig ig yog endegee om megite mee? etilig unim amee (What sicknesses are there?) 2. megite henee ogoo ig etilig umb igung? (What causes sicknesses?) 2. mohis ib holomotob etilig egee hann ig? (Does stepping on poop make you sick?) 4. hogot etilig uma mohis nemb etilig egee hann ig? (Does eating...

3-8 Health & Sickness culture-summary

Genesis - beginning story from Nambi

Edited May 28, 2024, 2:05 p.m. by Steve

I went down to Nambi's on the Mematonn ridge to stay overnight on 25.10.23. He had told all his sons to come together that evening and Ulumo was also there with his family. Then he shared this story about God creating people and some of the first people. It seems to be a personal clan story. I am no...

5-2 Cosmology & Mythology 3-14 Sex & Reproduction 5-1 Gods & Spirits

Get a new husband hortatory

Edited Nov. 10, 2023, 9:51 a.m. by Steve

Samuel has been having problems with his daughter Weli's husband. I asked him to give a hortatory where he tells her what to do and this is what he came up with on the 4th attempt....

3-3 Marriage & Family steve-DA

Getting a friend to buy things in town

Edited Nov. 28, 2023, 3:15 p.m. by Steve

Had conversations about giving some money to a friend going to town and them buying things for you....

7-14 Distribution & Delivery of Goods

Getting baby pigs out of the bush

Edited May 12, 2022, 10:03 a.m. by Rhett

On walk back from Magilong we came across Bolol's daughter (Lili) and son-in-law (Wajimbu) sitting around the fire. It was strange as there wasn't a house nearby and they had built a sandil. They explained what they were doing but I didn't understand. A day or two later I saw him again and asked him...

1-10 Farming & Ranching

Getting ears pierced

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 9:44 a.m. by Steve

Natalie and I visited Rut and Silas in their home. We noticed that Rut had one of her ears pierced and started talking about it. We did this in Tok Pisin. Then we got a recording on how it's done. Steve followed up with some interview questions....

1-11 Clothing & Adornment

Getting firewood

Edited Nov. 14, 2022, 11:18 a.m. by Steve

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

Getting tulip bark to make bilum string

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

Whilst cleaning the garden with a lot of other ladies, Amon went off to cut pieces of bark of a tulip tree. It was a younger Tulip tree. She tried to cut and pull the bark from the tree from as high as she could. Then she peeled the white skin of the inside of the bark out. They were curly long whit...

1-8 Gardening & Gathering

Go to town hortatory

Edited Feb. 7, 2023, 2:22 p.m. by Steve

I elicited a hortatory text from Semik where he pretends to talk to the community in general to tell them that it's best for mothers to go to town for delivery. He uses Juli and Sibongi as a -ve example, talks about the helicopter almost coming and uses that as a sort of example of what not to do....

3-9 Birth & Dying

God doesn't speak in dreams anymore

Edited Nov. 20, 2023, 2:58 p.m. by Steve

While working on Interviews about prayer Joel misunderstood my first question. He thought I was asking how God speaks to us and he repeated what I had told him about 2 weeks before about how God used to speak through dreams, but now has spoken through the Bible....

5-4 Dreams & Visions

God's garden

Edited April 16, 2024, 2:50 p.m. by Steve

People talk about going into God's garden as a place of blessing. I asked some people about it. Kavaluku following his talk reinforced it by saying that if Was had heard the talk he wouldn't have died middle aged....

5-3 Sacred Objects & Places