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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Limbum" is the name give to almost all products
fromt he black palm. Strips of the outer timber are used as floorint in houses
or bench seats and they are called limbum also.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,<BR>T</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=bja406@coombs.anu.edu.au
href="mailto:bja406@coombs.anu.edu.au">Bryant Allen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mihalic@anu.edu.au
href="mailto:mihalic@anu.edu.au">mihalic@anu.edu.au</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 15, 2004 1:21
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Mihalic] bilum</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>In East Sepik, west of the Abelam (who are bilum makers par
excellence) many groups of people did not make bilums (and if they do now,
make pretty awful ones). <BR><BR>Urat women (and I think Wapei and people
around Lumi) make capacious carriers out of the spathe of a species of black
palm (?Grulubia costata), carried off the forehead by a strip of beaten bark.
In Pidgin these are called "limbum". Men also make smaller containers for
carrying things like yams, that are a different shape to the women's carriers
and are slung off the shoulder. They are also called "limbum". The Urat word
for "limbum" is <I>pundenge</I> and I think the carriers are also just called
that.<BR><BR>It was suggested some time back that photos are acceptable. The
attached jpg file is a photo of a woman's "limbum" made for a small girl
(little girls commonly carry a "limbum" to the gardens with their mother),
which is otherwise almost identical to the full scale thing. The two
additional pieces of bark are used to increase the capacity of the "limbum".
They are put in the front and the back to support loads which go above the
edge of the "limbum itself. Children are not carried in a "limbum" but in a
beaten bark strip called a "mal" in Pidgin (<I>tehtalpe</I> in Urat -
<I>teh=</I>child<I>, talpe=</I>beaten bark strip). The <I>tehtalpe</I> has
been universally replaced with a cotton laplap but the "limbum" is still used
by all women.<BR>Bryant<BR><X-SIGSEP>
<P></X-SIGSEP>Dr Bryant Allen<BR>Senior Fellow<BR>Land Management
Group<BR>Department of Human Geography<BR>Research School of Pacific and Asian
Studies<BR>The Australian National University<BR>ACT 0200 Australia<BR><BR>ANU
CRICOS Provider Number is 00120C<BR><BR>
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