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'Interview - Ulumo, work issues' from Inteviews about work topics

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Speaker: Ulumo

'Interview - Umendu, communal property' from Interviews about property

last edited March 26, 2024, 9:37 a.m. by Steve

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Speaker: Umendu

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6: 0:11:23 (Esulumand cuts it) 7: 0:12:09 (Tomoogonn) 8: 0:12:20 (Yagib river)

'Interview - Umendu, sports' from Interviews about sports

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Speaker: Umendu

'Interview - Was, Grandparents' from Grandparents interview

last edited Feb. 8, 2023, 2:25 p.m. by Steve

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Speaker: Was

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1: 0:00:00 (they look after grandkids) 2: 0:00:15 (grandkids take grand parent's names. I took my grandfather's name. This doesn't happen all the time, not every grandkid takes a grandparent's name) 3: 0:00:51 (yes grandkids give grandparents food) 4: 0:01:03 (they give food, cut gardens, put fences, build houses, do roofing, sweep and clean, cut trails, get water and fire. I did these things, I'll teach my grandkids to do the same and they'll do it too. When grandkids are big they do these things. Do Grandkids listen to their grandparents? yes they listen) 5: 0:02:21 (a ground house, their own house. When grandkids are big they can also sleep there. They'll sleep in their kids house, unless they've died)

'Interview - Was, cutting gardens' from Cutting gardens interviews

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

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Speaker: Was

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1: 0:00:00 (all the time. We cut the bush and build a fence. Kaukau gardens are big) 2: 0:00:18 (everywhere - Kos, Namasug, Kalenk, Ubinakulunk. I just cut one in Namasug. We cut it, put the fence and then plant everything. Our grandparents did it, and I do it) 3: 0:01:14 (both male and female cut gardens. My grandad cut gardens, so did my dad, me and my kids. This part I cut, this part the ladies cut) 4: 0:01:43 (we cut gardens all the time. He lists some more places he cuts gardens. I cut my garden in August. Jan - June I eat. July I cut a garden. Where will you cut your new garden? Ulul, then in August we'll burn it and plant) 5: 0:03:08 (once we get the food the garden goes old. We plant a new one and big trees come up in the old garden. Trees will come after a whole hand - 5 years and we'll cut a new garden) 6: 0:03:54 (the bush is really big, there's lots of space. We cut gardens to the size we want tasol. We cut small gardens -[compared to the size of the bush I guess?] ) 7: 0:05:26 (they will talk and split the area up and work together.)

'Interview - Was, fences' from Fence interviews

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Speaker: Was

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1: 0:00:00 (pigs and animals go in the garden and wreck the food so we build fences. We put posts, sticks a base and we tie it with rope. He names some of the ropes. Then we plant, he lists some foods. The food will stay good and not get wrecked) 2: 0:01:49 (women put sticks and tie them. We men put the sticks and the base and we build it. My fathers did it like this. Women cut the bushes and burn the cuttings, men cut trees and build fences.) 3: 0:03:00 (Some gardens have fences and some are naked. If the edge of a garden is a cliff we don't need to put a fence. Sometimes we plant yams without a fence) 4: 0:04:17 (it'll be ok, sometimes it'll be bad. If a pig gets in it will eat the food) 5: 0:05:24 (ulugunim agann kol, tapeltapel, mak lugim olomoo, kamda, sili kot) 6: 0:05:46 (a long time, until the food is harvested) 7: 0:06:06 (we fix the holes. If it gets in again we kill the pig) 8: 0:06:25 (they build fences. They have lots of pigs and if one gets in it'll eat the food)

'Interview - Wilip, names' from Interview about names

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Speaker: Wilip

'Interview - Wilip, outsiders' from Interview about outsiders moving in

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Speaker: Wilip

'Interview - Wilip, welfare and begging' from Interview about caring for unfortunates

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Speaker: Wilip

'Interview - Yagil, Food' from Food interviews first round

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Speaker: Yagil

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1. megite mena nonn honn tenn nemb igwonn ig? honn mena enenee ombo ilis galas salab endet nom om tenn nom ilam mena nom tenn om nom ipat enenee om tenn nemb 2. su megite mena nongom ig? su galas nongom om ilib mena honnot inemb igugum. ennel tol ogom galas nongom 3. hoomee megite mena nomom ig? hoomee galas his galas his nomom 4. megite mena nom honn ubiyab nemb igwonn ig? galas ilis salab nom enenee om nemb igung 5. megite mena nonn honn hutam hutam nemb igwonn ig? tas endet honn hutam hutam tas nemb igung galas ilis salab nom enenee om nongom yam 6. mena olagul om megite me? ilis tas om mena olagul 7. mena mesiloo om megite me? mena nogul abatol selibeg undulum ig mena nom ol mena olog mena bili nom honn wog honn og om honn taba mena olog om nemb igung om mena tenn nom salab ilis galas om tenn nemb igung yabi mena bili eb nom abatol mena bili nom honn ombo nemb igung hutam nemb igung 8. megite mena mohis etelig nemb igugund ig? mohis etelig umbi galas nog olu eleb igu yagom nemb igugund hiam nemb igugund hosibiag nemb igugund inambuli inemb igugund nomol endetenn nemb agamb igugund bilie eleb mena hyol ogoo nemb igugund 9. megite mena undum nemb igugund ig? undum hebingondo ombo mom nemb igugund om tondee agabi eleb yagom nemb igugund ulu galas endet nemb yab agabi aga 10. undum two nemb igugund mohis agabi nemb igugund o wig? undum two nemb igugund mohis agabi nemb igugund sinnol ogoo neleb two nemb igugund

'Interview - Yagil, cutting trees' from Cutting trees interviews

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Speaker: Yagil

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1: 0:00:00 teme memi higeb igugund memi hum higeb mandimi wi tugulasi teme memi higeb igu egee wi tugula enn nim hugul om ennel higeb igugum moloomunn hugul egee wi tugub teb nim agabi om higeb igugum mesag nim higul higeb igugum hugul higeb mandom wi tugub ogoo tolob nim agabi nom higeb igugum agabig higob mendee hipundub mo wondob mende hipundub yab igugum hugul endet senyom usomb igugum hotoogot usomb pigond endet yab 2: 0:00:44 teme nim agabi mu higeb igugund moloomunn his higeb igugund 3: 0:00:54 moloomunn nim henee ogoo higeb igugund asam ilib sel ogoo higwasi leb igu ilib yoogwasi leb igu om moloomunn mehamonn 4: 0:01:09 nim agabi isig omboo logooneng higwo oloo wig beel hebigondoo omboo endet higwo oloo wig omboo na asam ilib igung higeb igung

'Interview - Yagil, drivers' from Interviews about drivers

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Speaker: Yagil

'Interview - Yagil, employment' from Interviews about employment

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Speaker: Yagil

'Interview - Yagil, fishing' from Fishing interview

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Speaker: Yagil

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1: 0:00:00 (he's in the water shooting fish) 2: 0:00:12 (fish, spear (yogob)) 3: 0:00:24 (musom glass) 4: 0:00:33 (hit the fish on a rock to kill them, go in the water, put goggles, shoot fish, hit it on a rock and tie it up with rope. what time do you do it? night) 5: 0:01:41 (I don't go in, I stay on the shore and whack fish on a rock and tie them up. The kids go in the water, I think it's cold) 6: 0:02:25 (yagib, nomond togoomee, miminn, womunee) 7: 0:02:43 (yes, we say pugum. we bait it with salab, when the fish bites we get it and whack it on a rock and rebait the hook) 8: 0:03:33 (no, we don't use nets, nambis does that) 9: 0:03:48 (yes, we hit the rope at night and come look in the morning, the fish get tired and we grab them and cut them. Lots of them are easy to catch. We follow the river picking up fish and throwing them to the shore. First people go down and get the fish, killing them and later we collect them. The rope is ombol simonn)

'Interview - Yagil, houses' from Interviews about building houses

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created Dec. 18, 2022, 6:56 p.m.




Speaker: Yagil

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1: 0:00:00 3: 0:01:11 4: 0:01:35 5: 0:02:03 6: 0:02:49 7: 0:03:18 8: 0:03:34 9: 0:03:52

'Interview - Yagil, knowing things' from Interviews about knowing hidden things

last edited Jan. 5, 2024, 12:24 p.m. by Steve

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Speaker: Yagil

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1: 0:00:23 (we say that in the white man place knowledge has come and they know and make lots of things, but we black people dont. Why is that? They follow talk, we black people break talk and so we don't have knowledge, And God gives them knowledge? Yeah God gives them knowledge. So white people follow God's talk and he gives them knowledge? That's what we say. They follow God's talk and he gives them good thinking, but we don't know we're blind) 3: 0:01:58 (they did sorcery. Bad thinking was in the ground, it went and gave bad thinking and they did sorcery. Good people don't know about it. If people didn't know who it was what did they do to find out? We say a good person goes to good places, but a bad person brings bad with him and it hits him) onn musu bili nom endet ab bili ogoo yaga musu hobol yot haga es yot om onn egee agamb endet yogoonong yab igu yogoonong yab yab endet mohis nom endegee endegee yo sila pigug sila pigeb heb amb igung oo mohis om yog endegee. (That's what we say, don't know if it's true or not. So you wait to see who gets the hevi and then you know? Yes, they did it like that. They go down a bad road and bad goes with them and hits their home. So you don't see the sorcery, you see the hevi? yeah like that. We'd chew buai and leave it and the sorcerer would cook it and would attack us that way) 4: 0:06:48 (now when someone dies they die for their own sin, people used to do sorcery with buai, but now it's our own sin we don't do sorcery. Maybe we aren't wanbel or something and our own hevi gets us. How do I know what sin caused my own sickness? That's just what we say, sometimes we know what sin and sometimes we don't. We confess sin and say we're sorry, if we do that we get better.) 2: 0:10:14 (we see the stars but we don't know about getting something from them, we know about the wisemen in the Christmas story.) 5: 0:11:59 (our ancestors showed us)

'Interview - Yagil, oratory' from Interviews about oratory

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Speaker: Yagil

'Interview - Yagil, roads 2' from Road interviews 2

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Speaker: Yagil

'Interview - Yagil, seasons' from Questions about wet and dry season

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Speaker: Yagil

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1: 0:00:00 (Nov - June) 2: 0:00:31 (he doesn't work, just little work) 3: 0:00:46 (July - Sept) 4: 0:01:08 (harvesting yams, cutting gardens, planting gardens) 5: 0:01:35 (he does work, in wet season he doesn't)

'Interview - Yagil, social stratification' from Interviews about social stratification

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Speaker: Yagil

'Interview - Yagil, spirits' from Interviews about spirits

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Speaker: Yagil

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1: 0:00:00 2: 0:00:50 3: 0:01:39 4: 0:02:25 5: 0:04:16 6: 0:05:32 7: 0:06:21 8: 0:07:18 10: 0:08:18

'Interview - Yagil, sports' from Interviews about sports

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Speaker: Yagil

'Interview - Yagil, taboos' from Interviews about avoidance and taboo

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Speaker: Yagil

'Interview - Yagil, travel' from Interviews about travel

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Speaker: Yagil

'Interview - Yagil, types of gardens' from Garden types interview

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

created March 15, 2023, 8:43 a.m.




Speaker: Yagil

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1: 0:00:00 (galas, salab, ham, hyogom, mena nogul, ilis, hus. mogog mogut, esee mogut. In summary, buai, marita, kaukau and yam) 2: 0:00:46 (yams, ilis and hus) 3: 0:00:58 (galas, salab, hus, tas, ilam, pabasil, menawann, everything) 4: 0:01:16 (tulip seeds a bamboo or 2) 5: 0:01:29 (when we've eaten the food and the garden is old we break the fence and let the pigs in) 6: 0:01:51 (when we've eaten the yams and the kongkong and it's just tapiok we let the pigs into yam gardens) 7: 0:02:09 (when the kaukau is gone and we've taken the shoots we let pigs into kaukau gardens) 8: 0:02:24 (we cover the yams with grass, then get them and put them in a house and then we plant them in a new garden and the old garden wastes away. We only get one harvest from the yam garden) 9: 0:03:28 (We don't plant peanuts in an old kaukau garden. We plant in a new garden)

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