tci20111107 - Ebar zan

This recording is a story about a head hunting raid on the village of Firra that took place in the 1920s. The story was told by Maraga Kwozi, whose grandfather had survived the attack. In another recording (tci20111119-01), Abia Bai tells another episode of this headhunting raid. The story was told in Morehead, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

The dataset includes:

• an audio file (tci20111107a-01.wav)
• a video file (tci20111107v-01.mpeg)
• the interlinearised transcription file (tci20111107a-01.eaf)

Note that the transcription file in this record is not up to date! For an updated version of this file, please download the most recent version of the Komnzo text corpus as a zip-file under 10.5281/zenodo.1306246

The material was recorded by Christian Döhler as part of a language documentation project for his PhD. The project was located at the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University, Canberra. For the most part it was funded by the DOBES project of the Volkswagen Foundation.