OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1272876

Metadata
Title:		Kedua
		bitur004
		Documentation and description of Bitur and preliminary investigation of the moribund Abom language
Contributor (researcher):		Phillip
Contributor (speaker):		Nasi
Contributor (translator):		Darima
		Gabriel
		Max
		Timothy
Coverage:		Papua New Guinea
Date:		2015-08-24
Description:		This is a narrative audio recording in which Nasi Gonean tells a story about the history of Upiara and Bitur speakers. In the story, a man named Kedua goes with many other men to a place near Petom in order to burn the grass (a hunting technique). Kedua was not a good hunter, and he usually kept his bows tied up in his house. They went out, and crossed the creek at a place called Bagora. They started burning the grass, and many wallabies were coming out. Kedua was hitting all the wallabies in all the right places, killing them. They continued hunting them all the way to the point, and Kedua kept shooting and killing wallabies while the other hunters missed. When they finished, he put bundles of meat on his shoulders, and he had a lot to carry. A string broke with meat on it, so he gave it to another man, telling him to take it ahead to his children. He continued to give meat to others to carry as well. When he crossed a log over water, a crocodile knocked him off and swallowed him. The crocodile took him up to the top of a hill and left him there. The story continues, with more happening underground. Basically, the men who came before Kedua was knocked off the log spoke Giribam, but the men who came after spoke Bitur. This was a story about how the people of Upiara came to speak Bitur. The recording was made at the residence of Wendy Maiki. Transcription, translation, and discussion of individual word glosses were done by hand in a field notebook, and later entered into ELAN.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		application/pdf
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1272876
		SG0446
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1272876%23
Subject:		Folk narrative
		Bitur language
		English language
Subject (ISO639):		mcc
		eng
Type:		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1272876
DateStamp:		2019-03-08
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Phillip (researcher); Nasi (speaker); Darima (translator); Gabriel (translator); Max (translator); Timothy (translator). 2015-08-24. Endangered Languages Archive.
Terms:		area_Europe area_Pacific country_GB country_PG iso639_eng iso639_mcc
Inferred Metadata
Country:		United KingdomPapua New Guinea
Area:		EuropePacific