tci20120817-02 - Ythama

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 customs and beliefs around ythama (Paradisaea raggiana). The recording was made close to Rouku village, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

The dataset includes:

• audio file (tci20120817a-02.wav)
• transcription file (tci20120817a-02.eaf)

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.