[PapuanLanguages] A memorial page for the late Pauline Yuaneng Agnes Luma Laki

Fri Jun 19 18:06:47 AEST 2020

Dear Papuanists

On 14 March 2020 we lost Pauline Yuaneng Agnes Luma Laki, a most knowledgeable elder of the Manambu people, and a very very dear friend and older sister.

The Memorial page for Pauline Yuaneng Luma Laki  is now live at

 https://www.jcu.edu.au/language-and-culture-research-centre/resources/pauline-laki-memorial

I thought I'd share this with you - and further contributions to the site will be most welcome.

Best wishes

Sasha

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Sent: Friday, 5 June 2020 10:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [PapuanLanguages] ID of a bird called 'mukumuku' in Tok Pisin

Dear Darija, Kongot

Wonderful, thanks! I recorded several versions of a very similar story among the Manambu and the Yalaku - all involve cassowaries, med in Manambu, meda in Yalaku.

Have you tried asking Janet Gagul and Mark Ziembicki - our friends - ornitologists?

Best wishes, more soon

Sasha

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, PhD, DLitt, FQAAS, FAHA

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Sent: Thursday, 4 June 2020 10:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [PapuanLanguages] ID of a bird called 'mukumuku' in Tok Pisin

Hi Darja,
This story sounds like the one we have in Ranmo language of Western Province (your Languages of Southern New Guinea colleagues are probably telling you similar stories), in which case the two birds used are a cassowary (muruk-Pidgin) and brolga. I'm not sure the Pidgin word for brolga. We do have black palm cockatoos which have red eyes.
Jessica

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 7:38 AM Darja Hoenigman <darja.hoenigman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Has anyone heard of a bird called *mukumuku* in Tok Pisin?
>
> There's an Awiakay myth about the bird of paradise and *embay* (TP 
> *mukumuku*), who went washing in the river and took off their 
> 'grass-skirts'. But the bird of paradise quickly went out of the 
> water, saying it needed to go to poo, and stole *embay*'s beautiful grass skirt.
> Now he's happily dancing around in it, while *embay* is walking 
> around, crying for his beautiful plumage, so that his eyes are all red.
>
> All I know for sure about *embay* (*mukumuku*) is that it is a dark 
> bird with red eyes and distinctive calls. No photos, no recordings of 
> its calls, just a Tok Pisin translation.
>
> I've checked the Aviabase for East Sepik, and there could be a few 
> candidates there, but I can't be sure about any of them.
>
> BTW, this myth seems to be widely spread all over New Guinea (with 
> some variation), but while the bird of paradise is a constant, the 
> other bird varies...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> With best wishes,
> Darja
>
> --
>
> Darja Hoenigman
>
> Visiting Research Fellow
>
> School of Culture, History and Language /
>
> ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
>
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