Culture events with 1-8 Gardening & Gathering tag

Bananas fell down

Edited Dec. 12, 2022, 9:37 a.m. by Steve

Banana by Philips house fell down in the wind. The bananas weren't ready...

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Burning clippings interviews

Edited Feb. 16, 2023, 2:55 p.m. by Steve

1. mogom undonn eteb igugund? (who burns garden clippings?) 2. megite tugub undonn eteb igugund? (how do they burn clippings?) 3. mogut tenn undonn eteb igugund o mogut hyol ogoo undonn mu eteb igugund? (do all gardens have their clippings burned, or just some?) 4. undonn utasi yu yombonn ogoo lob i...

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Clan tree for one of the torokum clans and its story

Edited Nov. 14, 2022, 11:13 a.m. by Rhett

We had visited Egigol Ume and next to Abanel's house there was a tree which had attracted a lot of butterflies. Stacie asked for a cutting and it turns out there was deeper significance to the tree. Kavaluku wanted to tell the stories and customs related to the tree...

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Cleaning a new garden

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

The ladies all stand in a line and work from bottom to top up the hill. With a small bushknife and with the hands all the weeds and small bushes are removed. Everything is thrown down. The sticks are put together and lay against tree stumps. This piece of ground is from Marina, Amon and another lady...

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Cutting gardens interviews

Edited Feb. 13, 2023, 8:16 a.m. by Steve

1. megite honn ogoo galas mogut sogwa higeb igwonn ig? (what time do you clear a new kaukau garden?) 2. megite ab ogoo mogut sodwa neleb igwonn ig? (where do you make a new garden?) 3. mogom mogut sogwa higeb igugund? (who cuts a new garden?) 4. 6 mun mena mogut sogwa egee higininn. Megite ab ogoo m...

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Cutting trees in a new garden

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:35 a.m. by Steve

Samuel took us to a garden. The ladies cleaned the garden and then we men worked. Starting at the top of the garden we cut trees about arm thick or less down with machetes. We cut the trees at about knee height or higher to leave handholds to climb up and down while gardening later and I was told al...

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Cutting trees interviews

Edited March 13, 2023, 3:18 p.m. by Steve

1. mogut higinim eb nagonn teme meme higeb igugund, moloomunn nim agabi higeb igugund. teme nim hugul higeb igugund o wig? (do women cut saplings?) 2. honn ogoo teme nim agabi higeb igugund o wig? (do women sometimes cut trees?) 3. moloomunn nim agabi isig higeb igugund o nim asam ilib nim sel higwa...

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Digging yams

Edited Dec. 8, 2022, 11:37 a.m. by Steve

Kavaluku invited me to dig yams in his garden. We arrived there at about 10am, a few ladies were there already. We sat by the river (close by) and cut sticks for Digging yams. Going to the garden we cleared the grass, uncovered the yams, loosened the dirt with sticks and ...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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....

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Gathering omu sog

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

Basic level on gathering omu sog...

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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...

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Grow and sell tobacco - Kelly

Edited Sept. 14, 2023, 2:44 p.m. by Philip

I asked Kelly by the hauswin to give me instructions on how to grow and sell tobacco...

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Growing cocoa near house

Edited May 25, 2023, 8:10 a.m. by Steve

I asked Silas who the cocoa trees belonged to by his house and why they were planted...

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Harvesting sago

Edited May 10, 2023, 10:26 a.m. by Philip

Sailas gives us a text about Harvesting sago after we showed him pictures of the process....

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Interview yam garden

Edited May 21, 2024, 4:45 p.m. by Gerdine

We visited Ogomam Ulum with our family and I found Soloni there. I asked her the following questions:...

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Kambang making

Edited Dec. 1, 2022, 11:46 a.m. by Steve

Walking to the butterfly tree grove we came across Musisi. He was checking if his Kambang which he had burned to ash the day previous, had cooled off yet (it had not). I had asked him to tell me about the process, Kavaluku coached him through just about every sentence....

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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...

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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....

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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....

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Picking sweet potato branches for planting

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

Amon took Natalie and me to one of her gardens. Cinthia and Daik came along as well. We waited for the rain to stop first. When we left it wasn't raining anymore. The purpose of the trip was to pick branches of sweet potato plants for replanting in a new garden (the next day). It started raining pre...

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