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oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1201394

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Title:The Japanese doctor who beheaded himself
v2012-08-01-AH-03
Documentation and description of Papitalai, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea
Contributor (consultant):Kris
Contributor (researcher):Jessica
Coverage:Papua New Guinea
Date:2012-08-01
Description:Five and a half minute video recording with ripped audio file. In this recording John Kris tells a story about a Japanese government doctor who beheaded himself during the war. Recorded in Jessica's house, with John Kris facing the beach, with his back to the road.
Village name: Chalapan. Kris's parents are Hinduwan (mother) and Lopwar (father). Kristine Pat is his sister and Mary Clara Hinduwan is his daughter.John Kris is Jessica Cleary-Kemp's adopted uncle (mu). John Kris was born in approximately 1930 in Papitalai village, where he grew up. He learnt the Papitalai dialect of Koro as his first language, but also began learning Tok Pisin from a very young age. He had a lot of contact with the American and Australian soldiers during World War II, when they came to Los Negros. Nowadays Tok Pisin is his primary language, but he is still very fluent in Koro. He also knows a language of Kavieng.
Format:video/mp4
audio/x-wav
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1201394
IGS0124
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1201394%23
Publisher:Jessica Cleary-Kemp
University of California, Berkeley
Subject:Personal narrative
Koro (Papua New Guinea) language
Koro
Papitalai language
Subject (ISO639):kxr
pat
Type:Video
Audio

OLAC Info

Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
Description:  http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1201394
DateStamp:  2018-09-26
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Search Info

Citation: Kris (consultant); Jessica (researcher). 2012-08-01. Jessica Cleary-Kemp.
Terms: area_Pacific country_PG iso639_kxr iso639_pat

Inferred Metadata

Country: Papua New Guinea
Area: Pacific


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