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Latitude
-4.71979
Longitude
143.6055
Start Date
2018-08-18
End Date
2018-08-18

Description

Sago grubs are a delicacy, and an important part of the Awiakay diet. While they are usually boiled and eaten with sago pudding, they are sometimes threaded on a rope and smoked. Preserved in this way they last longer, and can be taken to another bushcamp, or to another village for trading. This string figure represents threading the grubs. When it is finished, the maker says: “I’m pulling them off now”, and pulls the string to undo the pattern, as if pulling the sago grubs off a skewer, one by one. Images: 02: wao toiplakay ‘thredaing sago grubs’ string figure design 03: wao ‘sago grubs’ 04: wao toimba ‘threaded smoked sago grubs’

Sources

ID
tc3710
Source
https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DKH01/062_wao_toiplakay

Extended Data

ID
DKH01-062_wao_toiplakay
Publisher
Darja Hoenigman
Contact
admin@paradisec.org.au
License
Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Rights
Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)