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| Layer Id | 904 | 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, linguistics, language, language, PARADISEC, PARADISEC |
| 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 | 2023-11-05 00:47:35 |
| Updated At | 2024-03-28 12:02:47 | Ghap Url | https://test-ghap.tlcmap.org/layers/904 |
| Statistic | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
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Total Places
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20 | - |
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Area
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313.04499999998 | km2 |
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Convex Hull
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POLYGON((141.7285 -8.751,141.372 -8.7425,141.339 -8.5825,141.5205 -8.646,141.7285 -8.751)) | - |
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Density
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0.063888578319414 | places/km2 |
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Centroid
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POINT(141.53035000000003 -8.669475000000002) | - |
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Bounding Box
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POLYGON((141.339 -8.751,141.339 -8.5825,141.7285 -8.5825,141.7285 -8.751,141.339 -8.751)) | - |
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Most Central Place
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Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #9 | - |
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Most Distant Place from center
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Stories from the Morehead District, Tape #15 | - |
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Distribution
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kilometers |
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Start Date
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1979-11-01 | - |
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End Date
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1981-08-24 | - |
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Duration
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1.81 | years |
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Median Date
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1981-07-04 | - |
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Average Date
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1981-03-24 | - |