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NameLom, Bangka Island, (Indonesia)
Description2 cassette tapes with recordings of an endangered language (Lom, Bangka Island, Indonesia). Includes a funeral speech and animal stories.
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ContributorBill Palmer
Entries2
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Added to System2023-11-08 15:40:06
Updated in System2023-11-08 15:40:06
Subject linguistics, PARADISEC, language
Creator
PublisherOlaf Smedal
Contactadmin@paradisec.org.au
Citation
DOI
Source URLhttps://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/OS1
Linkbackhttps://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/OS1
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LicenseOpen (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Usage RightsOpen (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Date Created (externally)

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Latitude
-2.419
Longitude
105.7455
Start Date
1984-06-30
End Date
1984-06-30

Description

The funeral speech ('petunjuk jalan') was recorded June 30, 1984 at the Pejam cemetery (also published in the 'Wordlists'. The name of the reciter is Dule, a Lom man then in his late 40s; he had not learned the speech by heart so he read it from a notebook. The speech is repeated three times (for three graves). Following that there is a long talk (of little interest) between myself, a friend and a fairly old informant -- this recording took place in the village Pugul, outside the Lom territory proper. Details: there are three retellings of the funeral story. -- Retelling 1: 0-113 on the counter, 6 min. 10 sec. -- Retelling 2: 114-181 on the counter, 4 min. 30 sec. -- Retelling 3: 182-239 on the counter, 4 min. 10 sec. --

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ID
OS1-001
Languages
Bangka - mfb
Countries
Indonesia - ID
Publisher
Olaf Smedal
Contact
admin@paradisec.org.au
License
Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Rights
Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc8668
Linkback
https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/OS1/001
Source
https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/OS1/001
Created At
2023-11-08 15:40:06
Updated At
2023-12-11 17:50:26

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Latitude
-2.352
Longitude
105.5935
Start Date
1984-05-29
End Date
1984-05-29

Description

Like so many tapes of this kind it sort of rambles along, but by the time (on side one) you get to a discussion of disposable lighters (!) -- about two thirds of the way into side one -- the interesting stuff is over (no further archiving need). The particulars of the man who tells the stories: his name was Tedong (or, possibly, Cedong -- I am not quite certain; I code-named him MCD on the back of the tape cassette, for 'aMang [uncle] CeDong)) - no last name (the Lom don't see the reason for them). He was, in all likelihood, in his early to mid sixties when the recording took place in 1984, which would give a year of birth in the early 1920s. (I calculated this from his experiences during the Japanese occupation during WW II.) He was a wiry, fun, agile little man with great stamina. He had a reputation for being an accomplished cultivator with big swiddens he cleared himself and was considered by many to be the best informed on Lom lore. He was a pure Lom, illiterate; he had never been to school. To the best of my knowledge his parents were also Lom. Unfortunately, when I visited the Lom briefly in 1988 (just for a week) he was dead. He had, I was told, fallen from a tree the year before and hurt himself fatally, drawing his last breath a couple of days later.See below for details. -- Details: Story 1 (Clever Mousedeer): 0-243 on tape counter (12 min.) -- Story 2 (Mousedeer is Eaten): 243-317 on counter (approx. 9 min) -- Story 3 (When the Dog Ate the Mousedeer): 318-356 (approx. 3 min.)

Extended Data

ID
OS1-002
Languages
Bangka - mfb
Countries
Indonesia - ID
Publisher
Olaf Smedal
Contact
admin@paradisec.org.au
License
Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Rights
Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)

Sources

TLCMap ID
tc8669
Linkback
https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/OS1/002
Source
https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/OS1/002
Created At
2023-11-08 15:40:06
Updated At
2023-12-11 17:50:26
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