OLAC Record
oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3B7E-A

Metadata
Title:The story of the warrior Puti'o of Hiva 'Oa island
Putio-Mi
The documentation of the Marquesan languages and culture in French Polynesia
Contributor:Mi
Gaby Cablitz
Contributor (annotator):Gaby Cablitz
Coverage:French Polynesia
Date:2003-08-17
Description:This is the story of the warrior Putii'o from Hiva 'Oa (Hanaiapa). Putii'o made a tour around all the valleys of Hiva 'Oa and did not return to his home valley for a long time. One day he returns back to his father who is blind. At first his father does not accept that Putii'o is his son because he is convinced that he is dead. Putii'o having several head trophies around his waist shows his father which makes him believe that he is his son because he is a warrior. One day Putii'o decides to go to Fatu Iva on canoe taking his father with him. Half way to Fatu Iva, he kills his father because he fears that the warriors of Fatu Iva will kill and eat him. He lets his father and his head trophies sink to the bottom of the sea in safety of the enemies at Fatu Iva. When they reach Fatu Iva (Omoa) they go inland and fight their battle with the warriors of Omoa. They do not finish their battle, but escape back to the sea and set off with their canoes. They return to Hiva 'Oa.
The project documents several different aspects of the Marquesan culture (legends, narratives, food preparation, plant medicine, fishing techniques, Marquesan trick languages, songs, dances etc.)
This file was generated from an IMDI 1.9 file and transformed to IMDI 3.0. The substructure of Genre is replaced by two elements named "Genre" and "SubGenre". The original content of Genre substructure was: Interactional = 'Unspecified', Discursive = 'Unspecified', Performance = 'narrative'. These values have been added as Keys to the Content information.
This is the story of the warrior Potii'o from Hiva 'Oa (Hanaiapa). Potii'o made a tour around all the valleys of Hiva 'Oa and did not return to his home valley for a long time. One day he returns back to his father who is blind. At first his father does not accept that Potii'o is his son because he is convinced that he is dead. Potii'o having several head trophies around his waist shows his father which makes him believe that he is his son because he is a warrior. One day Potii'o decides to go to Fatu Iva on canoe taking his father with him. Half way to Fatu Iva, he kills his father because he fears that the warriors of Fatu Iva will kill and eat him. He lets his father and his head trophies sink to the bottom of the sea in safety of the enemies at Fatu Iva. When they reach Fatu Iva (Omoa) they go inland and fight their battle with the warriors of Omoa. They do not finish their battle, but escape back to the sea and set off with their canoes. They return to Hiva 'Oa.
North Marquesan was the only language used throughout the session. There were no other observers present during the recording.
Mi was born in 1930 and grew up on the island of Nuku Hiva in Ho'oumi with his adoptive father Moa (born in 1901). Mi does not speak French and did not go to school; however, he is not illiterate. Mi is one of the few persons on the Marquesas islands who have a considerable knowledge of the former Marquesan culture, in particular of songs, legends/narratives and dances. He is also one of the few people who can speak Marquesan trick languages fluently. Most of his cultural knowledge was transmitted by his adoptive father.
former Ph.D-student at the MPI for Psycholinguistics at the language acquisition section (W.Klein); four field trips to North Marquesas islands (Nuku Hiva, Ua Pou) collecting adult as well as child data. G. Cablitz is in charge of the Dobes-project.
Format:video/x-mpeg1
video/x-mpeg2
audio/x-wav
text/x-toolbox-text
text/x-eaf+xml
DVD
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3B7E-A
MQ
Publisher:Gaby Cablitz, George Teikiehuupoko (Marquesas), Edgar Tetahiotupa (Tahiti)
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Académie Marquisienne (Tuhuna 'Eo 'Enata)
Subject:Discourse
Narrative
North Marquesan language
Marquesan, North
Subject (ISO639):mrq
Type:video
audio

OLAC Info

Archive:  The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:  http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
GetRecord:  OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:  Pre-generated XML file

OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3B7E-A
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
GetRecord:  OAI-PMH request for simple DC format

Search Info

Citation: Mi; Gaby Cablitz; Gaby Cablitz (annotator). 2003-08-17. Gaby Cablitz, George Teikiehuupoko (Marquesas), Edgar Tetahiotupa (Tahiti).
Terms: area_Pacific country_PF iso639_mrq

Inferred Metadata

Country: French Polynesia
Area: Pacific


http://www.language-archives.org/item.php/oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3B7E-A
Up-to-date as of: Wed Apr 12 9:48:53 EDT 2017