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Recorded Events

Recorded Event: Ecec Bedowokum

Type: Narrative: Traditional

Primary Speech Variety: Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety

Secondary Speech Varieties: Tok Pisin

Date: 1998-08-30 Location: Wautogik and Charlottesville Duration: 5:09

Description: Story of how Wautogik got the Gumarəm dance

Note: notebook: a.38-39

Note: Text dictated by the primary speaker. Transcript read aloud by Andrew Moutu, Charlottesville, VA, February 2007

Participants

  1. Pita Kwainger · Primary, (M : c 75) Wautogik ~ fluent Arapesh speaker
  2. Lise Dobrin · Researcher, (F : 32) ~ American linguist, born Chicago 1966. Graduate student (linguistics, University of Chicago).
  3. Andrew Moutu · Reader, (M : c 40) Wautogik ~ born in Rabaul, studied at UPNG, worked at the PNG National Museum, PhD in Anthropology from Cambridge. Speaks Arapesh well, but not fully fluent.

WAV/ELAN Files

  1. Ecec Bedowokum