MANUSCRIPT
Western District (PNG) Fly River Area Authority : Western District legends
- Date
- 1974-1975
- Reference
- Micro-MS-Coll-08-1217
- Description
Legends in the vernacular languages from Western District villages, with English translations and illustrations.
Language - Written in the various vernacular languages of the Western District villages of Awim, Bine, Faiwol, Gogodala, Kiwai, Suki, Yongom and Zimakani.
Source of title - Transcribed from item
The initiative for this booklet came from Papua New Guinea tertiary students at the 1974 Camp Sirinumu Vernacular Literacy Course. Volunteer students fro Daru High School spent their 1974 Christmas holiday collecting material from interviews with their elders in their respective villages. Br Philip Guimont of Daru Montfort Catholic Mission encouraged the project. Doris Bjorkman and Ramona Lucht of the Summer Institute of Linguistics corrected and edited the transcripts and made the translations.
Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Finding Aids: Inventory available..
Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, 2004, PMB
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
- Format
- 1 microfilm reel(s), Transcriptions (Documents), Manuscripts, Microfilms
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