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Layer Id 824 Name Stories from the Morehead District
Description Audio recordings of stories (mostly secular, sometimes comic/bawdy) in numerous dialects from two language groups in the Morehead District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Recorded by Mary Ayres, Ph.D. during doctoral research conducted in 1979 - 1981. Translations (but not transcriptions) into English provided by local informants who were native speakers of the dialect. Associated funding: National Science Foundation of the United States Government Grant number: BNS 79-20932 Associated publication: This Side, That Side: Locality and Exogamous Group Definition in Morehead Area, Southwestern Papua Mary Clifton Ayres University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology March 1983 Subject Keywords linguistics, PARADISEC, language
Type Media Linkback https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MA1
Publisher Mary Ayres Contact admin@paradisec.org.au
Source Url https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MA1 License Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Rights Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions) Created At 2023-11-08 15:39:54
Updated At 2023-11-08 15:39:54 Ghap Url https://tlcmap.org/layers/824
Statistic Value Unit
Total Places
20 -
Area
313.04499999998 km2
Convex Hull
POLYGON((141.7285 -8.751,141.372 -8.7425,141.339 -8.5825,141.5205 -8.646,141.7285 -8.751)) -
Density
0.063888578319414 places/km2
Centroid
POINT(141.53035 -8.669475) -
Bounding Box
POLYGON((141.339 -8.751,141.339 -8.5825,141.7285 -8.5825,141.7285 -8.751,141.339 -8.751)) -
Most Central Place
Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #3 -
Most Distant Place from center
Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #15 -
Distribution
  • Average Distance from Centroid: 7.2789596390855
  • Average Distance from Centroid / Area of Convex Hull: 0.023252119149278
kilometers
Start Date
1979-11-01 -
End Date
1981-08-24 -
Duration
1.81 years
Median Date
1981-07-04 -
Average Date
1981-03-24 -