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Latitude

-4.71979

Longitude

143.6055

Start Date

2018-08-27

End Date

2018-08-27

With its tangled aerial prop roots resembling tangled strings, the pandanus tree is closely associated with string figures in general, to the point that some Awiakay suggest that string figures are played when people eat pandanus fruit (others, however, deny that; see Hoenigman, forthcom.) This string figure represents the roots of a wild pandanus. When it is finished, it can continue into another design representing yai tokopa ‘pig’s anus’. Images: 02: Darja Munbaŋgoapik showing ‘wild pandanus roots’, the final design 03: roots of wild pandanus Hoenigman, Darja. Forthcoming. Talking about strings: The language of string figure-making in a Sepik society, Papua New Guinea. Language Documentation & Conservation Journal.

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