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oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI667371

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Title:Traditional story about devil eating baby
CH1-200401BDP
Documentation of Vurës
Contributor:Catriona Malau
Contributor (recorder):Catriona Malau
Contributor (speaker):Basil
Coverage:Vanuatu
Date:2004-12-04
Description:Traditional story about a couple who plan to go reef gleaning at night. The devil pretends to be the man's wife and they go together, but while they are catching fish the devil gradually kills their baby. The father realises it is a devil and tries to kill her. He is too late to save the baby but he breaks open the devil's skull. Audio file has been transcribed, but no translation available.
Catriona Malau (collector), Catriona Hyslop (recorder), Basil (speaker).
Collection of 11 audio tapes and 4 MDs containing recordings of various Vurës speakers. Most of these recordings have a transcript, and many are also time-aligned in Transcriber and glossed in Toolbox with English and Bislama translations.
primary text
sound
Also known as Catriona Hyslop
Format:audio/x-wav
text/plain
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI667371
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI667371%23
Subject:Vurës language
Subject (ISO639):msn
Type:Audio

OLAC Info

Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI667371
DateStamp:  2017-09-12
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Search Info

Citation: Catriona Malau; Catriona Malau; Catriona Malau (recorder); Basil (speaker). 2004-12-04. Endangered Languages Archive.
Terms: area_Pacific country_VU iso639_msn

Inferred Metadata

Country: Vanuatu
Area: Pacific


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