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Kamao ‘Bandicoot’

Layer: Awiakay string figures
Link back to source:: https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/011_kamao
Type: Other

Details

Latitude: -4.71979
Longitude: 143.6055
Start Date: 2018-08-09
End Date: 2018-08-09

Description

The bandicoot (Echymipera rufescens) is one of the few marsupials that is also hunted by women, often hit with a stick when spotted in the bush close to the village. The final design of this string figure resembles the pointed nose of a bandicoot. After this, the figure-maker goes on to make the bandicoot’s stick nest. The animal now needs to be killed, so the string figure-maker cracks his or her knuckles to make a cracking sound, which represents breaking the bandicoot’s neck. Image: 02: ‘bandicoot’s pointed nose’

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Source

https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/011_kamao

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