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Stories from the Morehead District

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Ayres, Mary

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Australia: PARADISEC

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Audio recordings of stories (mostly secular, sometimes comic/bawdy) in numerous dialects from two language groups in the Morehead District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Recorded by Mary Ayres, Ph.D. during doctoral research conducted in 1979 - 1981. Translations (but not transcriptions) into English provided by local informants who were native speakers of the dialect.�

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Papua New Guinea

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Mary Ayres (collector), 1979, Stories from the Morehead District (MA1), Digital collection managed by PARADISEC. [Open Access] http://doi.org/10.4225/72/56E975199EED7

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/123368

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ANU Research Publications

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Sound recording
Podcast

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PARADISEC (Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures)

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Open Access via publisher website

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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10.4225/72/56E975199EED7

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