OLAC Record: Kas mundia ‘Ripe bananas’

OLAC Record
oai:paradisec.org.au:DKH01-017_kas_mundia

Metadata

Title: Kas mundia ‘Ripe bananas’

Access Rights: Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)

Bibliographic Citation: Darja Hoenigman (collector), Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer), Hilta Waŋgam (performer), 2018. Kas mundia ‘Ripe bananas’. TIFF/JPEG/MP4/MXF. DKH01-017_kas_mundia at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/NETE-MX11

Contributor (compiler): Darja Hoenigman

Contributor (performer): Darja Munbaŋgoapik

Hilta Waŋgam

Coverage (Box): northlimit=-4.16134; southlimit=-5.27824; westlimit=143.02; eastlimit=144.191

Coverage (ISO3166): PG

Date (W3CDTF): 2018-11-05

Date Created (W3CDTF): 2018-11-05

Description: This string figure requires two string figure-makers, and a number of bystanders. When the string figure is finished (which is when ‘bananas’ ripen), it develops into a make-believe game (cf. Goldman 1998 for a discussion of make-believe in Huli children’s play). When a bunch of bananas is brought from a garden and hung in the house, it takes a few days before the fruit ripen. They start ripening one by one, and while people wait for them to be ready, rats take their share at night. As a result, most bunches of bananas have the best fruits partly eaten by rats. While the string figure-makers are finishing the figure, one of the bystanders prompts a child to go and get some ashes from a fireplace. The game continues with the string figure-makers pretending to go to sleep, which is when a group of children (the ‘rats’) come and steal their string (the ‘bananas’). When the string figure-makers ‘wake up’, they look for their ‘bananas’, wondering who might have taken them. They continue playing the game, describing a situation which is all too familiar to every Awiakay child: when they wake up and want to eat ripe bananas, they are nowhere to be found – all that is left are the ‘torn bags’ where bananas were hidden. In the meantime, the ‘rats’ are eating the stolen bananas, indicated by the children untangling the string. The younger children are excited at the thought of doing something forbidden, namely eating the stolen ‘bananas’ before people come to chase them, while the older ones act like adults, repeating the often heard phrases such as waoaniŋeŋ ‘don’t fight over food’, or aka muim, menda kumbrakanay ‘don’t look at him while he’s eating, he might bite his tongue’. The string figure-makers now spot the group of ‘rats’ and pretend to take a spear to kill them. When all the ‘bananas’ are eaten (that is, when the string is untangled), the ‘rats’ need to go and return the empty stem. The ‘angry people’ (the two string figure-makers) are waiting for them, promising to take their revenge by impaling the thieving rats with fishing spears and embellishing their words with details drawn from real life. The more detailed the descriptions of what they’ll do to the ‘rats’, the more laughter they elicit from the audience. When the ‘rats’ finally get the courage to come and return the bare banana stem, the people take their revenge by blowing ashes into their faces. (For a more detailed analysis of this string figure see Hoenigman, forthcoming). Image: 02: The ripest bananas in the bunch are usually eaten by rats at night. Hoenigman, Darja. Forthcoming. Talking about strings: The language of string figure-making in a Sepik society, Papua New Guinea. Language Documentation & Conservation Journal. . Language as given: Awiakay

Format: Digitised: no Media: audiovisual recording

Identifier: DKH01-017_kas_mundia

Identifier (URI): http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/017_kas_mundia

Language: Tok Pisin

Language (ISO639): tpi

Rights: Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)

Subject (OLAC): language_documentation

Table Of Contents (URI): http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/017_kas_mundia/DKH01-017_kas_mundia-01.tif

http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/017_kas_mundia/DKH01-017_kas_mundia-01.jpg

http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/017_kas_mundia/DKH01-017_kas_mundia-01.mp4

http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/017_kas_mundia/DKH01-017_kas_mundia-01.mxf

Type (DCMI): MovingImage

OLAC Info

Archive: Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)

Description: http://www.language-archives.org/archive/paradisec.org.au

GetRecord: OAI-PMH request for OLAC format

GetRecord: Pre-generated XML file

OAI Info

OaiIdentifier: oai:paradisec.org.au:DKH01-017_kas_mundia

DateStamp: 2022-06-22

GetRecord: OAI-PMH request for simple DC format

Search Info
Citation: Darja Hoenigman (compiler); Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer); Hilta Waŋgam (performer). 2018. Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC).
Terms: area_Pacific country_PG dcmi_MovingImage iso639_tpi olac_language_documentation

http://www.language-archives.org/item.php/oai:paradisec.org.au:DKH01-017_kas_mundia
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Metadata
Title:		Kas mundia ‘Ripe bananas’
Access Rights:		Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Bibliographic Citation:		Darja Hoenigman (collector), Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer), Hilta Waŋgam (performer), 2018. Kas mundia ‘Ripe bananas’. TIFF/JPEG/MP4/MXF. DKH01-017_kas_mundia at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/NETE-MX11
Contributor (compiler):		Darja Hoenigman
Contributor (performer):		Darja Munbaŋgoapik
Contributor (performer):		Hilta Waŋgam
Coverage (Box):		northlimit=-4.16134; southlimit=-5.27824; westlimit=143.02; eastlimit=144.191
Coverage (ISO3166):		PG
Date (W3CDTF):		2018-11-05
Date Created (W3CDTF):		2018-11-05
Description:		This string figure requires two string figure-makers, and a number of bystanders. When the string figure is finished (which is when ‘bananas’ ripen), it develops into a make-believe game (cf. Goldman 1998 for a discussion of make-believe in Huli children’s play). When a bunch of bananas is brought from a garden and hung in the house, it takes a few days before the fruit ripen. They start ripening one by one, and while people wait for them to be ready, rats take their share at night. As a result, most bunches of bananas have the best fruits partly eaten by rats. While the string figure-makers are finishing the figure, one of the bystanders prompts a child to go and get some ashes from a fireplace. The game continues with the string figure-makers pretending to go to sleep, which is when a group of children (the ‘rats’) come and steal their string (the ‘bananas’). When the string figure-makers ‘wake up’, they look for their ‘bananas’, wondering who might have taken them. They continue playing the game, describing a situation which is all too familiar to every Awiakay child: when they wake up and want to eat ripe bananas, they are nowhere to be found – all that is left are the ‘torn bags’ where bananas were hidden. In the meantime, the ‘rats’ are eating the stolen bananas, indicated by the children untangling the string. The younger children are excited at the thought of doing something forbidden, namely eating the stolen ‘bananas’ before people come to chase them, while the older ones act like adults, repeating the often heard phrases such as waoaniŋeŋ ‘don’t fight over food’, or aka muim, menda kumbrakanay ‘don’t look at him while he’s eating, he might bite his tongue’. The string figure-makers now spot the group of ‘rats’ and pretend to take a spear to kill them. When all the ‘bananas’ are eaten (that is, when the string is untangled), the ‘rats’ need to go and return the empty stem. The ‘angry people’ (the two string figure-makers) are waiting for them, promising to take their revenge by impaling the thieving rats with fishing spears and embellishing their words with details drawn from real life. The more detailed the descriptions of what they’ll do to the ‘rats’, the more laughter they elicit from the audience. When the ‘rats’ finally get the courage to come and return the bare banana stem, the people take their revenge by blowing ashes into their faces. (For a more detailed analysis of this string figure see Hoenigman, forthcoming). Image: 02: The ripest bananas in the bunch are usually eaten by rats at night. Hoenigman, Darja. Forthcoming. Talking about strings: The language of string figure-making in a Sepik society, Papua New Guinea. Language Documentation & Conservation Journal. . Language as given: Awiakay
Format:		Digitised: no Media: audiovisual recording
Identifier:		DKH01-017_kas_mundia
Identifier (URI):		http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/017_kas_mundia
Language:		Tok Pisin
Language (ISO639):		tpi
Rights:		Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Subject (OLAC):		language_documentation
Table Of Contents (URI):		http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/017_kas_mundia/DKH01-017_kas_mundia-01.tif
		http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/017_kas_mundia/DKH01-017_kas_mundia-01.jpg
		http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/017_kas_mundia/DKH01-017_kas_mundia-01.mp4
		http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/017_kas_mundia/DKH01-017_kas_mundia-01.mxf
Type (DCMI):		MovingImage
OLAC Info
Archive:		Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/paradisec.org.au
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:paradisec.org.au:DKH01-017_kas_mundia
DateStamp:		2022-06-22
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Darja Hoenigman (compiler); Darja Munbaŋgoapik (performer); Hilta Waŋgam (performer). 2018. Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC).
Terms:		area_Pacific country_PG dcmi_MovingImage iso639_tpi olac_language_documentation