tci20120818 - Ebar zan

This is a recording of Abia Bai by the riverbank of the Morehead river. The recording is part of a birdwalk together with Chris Healey and Julia Colleen Miller. Abia talks about a particular bird and other sounds that headhunter used to imitate to fool their potential vicitims. The recording was made close to Rouku village, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

The dataset includes:

• audio file (tci20120818a.wav)
• transcription file (tci20120818a.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.