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Participant: Matthew Rahiria

Also: Bikpapa, Matthew OtomairÉ™ Rahiria, Papa bilong Janet

Village: Wautogik · Sex: M · Age: c 60

Description: fluent Arapesh speaker, 2 years teacher's college, worked teaching school and as a headmaster before falling sick and retiring early

Associated Recorded Events

  1. Kinship vocabulary (Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety) : 1998-02-28, Wautogik. [45 minutes] ~ Forms elicited to learn the organization of the kinship system
  2. Storying around (Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety) : 1998-09-23, Wautogik. [31:50] ~ Unmonitored conversation with a small group of village participants
  3. The dog that became a girl (Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety) : 1998-10-12, Wautogik. [7:20] ~ A fantastic tale, sworn to be true, of a human-animal transformation in recent history
  4. Talk about lands (Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety) : 1998-01-23, Wautogik. [9:35] ~ Transcribed portion of discussion of land boundaries
  5. Building my house (Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety) : 1998-02-22, Wautogik. [2:00] ~ How the speaker arrived in the village to find people busily preparing for the arrival of a white woman
  6. Bikpapa getting sick (Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety) : 1998-02-22, Wautogik. [2:58] ~ How the speaker became increasingly and inexplicably ill, and what he did to try to recover
  7. Cassowary woman Antonia Sengu version (Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety) : 1998-02-22, Wautogik. [11:12] ~ traditional tale
  8. Casual talk after storytelling (Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety) : 1998-02-22, Wautogik. [1:27] ~ Conversation that ensued after a recording event
  9. Mayo (Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety) : 1998-09-18, Wautogik. [no audio] ~ Explanation of the phenomenon of sorcery.
  10. Bikpapa working as a teacher (Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety) : 1998-02-22, Wautogik. [6:19] ~ Speaker relates his history of work in the PNG educational system
  11. Ehiwac (Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety) : nd, follows 1998-09-18 in notebook, Wautogik. [4:45] ~ How to appease marsalai spirits who make people sick
  12. Elicitations with Matthew Rahiria (Tok Pisin) : 1999-03-11, Wautogik. [12:05] ~ Elicitations designed to learn about agreement with noun-final sounds
  13. Gathering to talk about lands (Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety) : 1998-01-23, Wautogik. [89:00] ~ A gathering of mature village men in order to clarify their understanding of their ancestral lands