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| Title: | Making a Mourning Necklace | |
| dvR_050927_B | ||
| Yiwarrunj, yinyman, radbiyi lda mali: Iwaidja and Other Endangered Languages of the Cobourg Peninsula (Australia) in their Cultural Context | ||
| Contributor: | Bruce | |
| Kim | ||
| Contributor (consultant): | Rae | |
| Coverage: | Australia | |
| Date: | 2005-09-27 | |
| Description: | The informant demonstrates the making of a traditional mourning necklace with a two ply string. The string itself is crafted of the fibres of the bark of the Banyan tree. Such necklaces were worn by widows and widowers to indicate their loss and their new social stand. After a certain griefing period which was determined by certain relatives, the necklace was cut off the mourners neck and attached to his dilly bag. | |
| This project documents, in as full a cultural context as is possible, the Iwaidja language of the Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory, Australia (Iwaidjan language family, non-Pama-Nyungan), still spoken by around 200 people but under increasing threat from English, as well as recording material from other languages of the region (Marrgu, Ilgar/ Garig, Amurdak and Manangkari) which are all reduced to one or two speakers each. In addition to linguists, the research team will include specialists in ethnomusicology, material culture / archaeology, and social anthropology, and will result in a comprehensive, searchable and browsable sound and video documentation, with Iwaidja transcriptions and subtitles alongside English translations, an Iwaidja dictionary of around 5,000 words, detailed phonetic analysis, and briefer materials on other languages of the area. | ||
| The informant demonstrates how to make a string with the fibres of the bark of a Banyan tree. She then produces a traditional mourning necklace which widows (male and female) used to wear around their neck to indicate their loss. After a certain griefing period, which was determined by certain relatives, the necklace got cut off and attached to the person's dilly bag. | ||
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| Format: | audio/x-wav | |
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| text/x-eaf+xml | ||
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-C3A0-F | |
| IW | ||
| Publisher: | Nicholas Evans | |
| University of Melbourne | ||
| Subject: | Demonstration | |
| Procedural | ||
| Making of Mourning Necklace | ||
| Iwaidja language | ||
| English language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | ibd | |
| eng | ||
| Type: | audio | |
| video | ||
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| 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 | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-C3A0-F | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | Bruce; Kim; Rae (consultant). 2005-09-27. Nicholas Evans. | |
| Terms: | area_Europe area_Pacific country_AU country_GB iso639_eng iso639_ibd | |
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| Country: | AustraliaUnited Kingdom | |
| Area: | EuropePacific | |