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FOLK‐TALES FROM NETHERLANDS NEW GUINEA

FOLK‐TALES FROM NETHERLANDS NEW GUINEA HE following legends were told me in the Kamoro language (accent on the final syllable), the tongue spoken by the lowlanders of southern New Guinea, from the Opa River (mouth at 1340 45' east long.) to the Karumuga River (mouth at 137 0 5' east long.), a total population of 7,000 to 8,000. The language has a number of dialects, but the dialect in which these legends were told, called by the speakers themselves akwbe Tarjawatja, i.e. the Tarjawa or larja language, seems to me the dialects in which the Kamoro language is at its purest. This dialect is spoken along the following rivers: the Poraoka, the Kipja, the Maparpe, the Akare and the WiJ.muka. They are situated in the most westerly portion of the Kamoro Plain. This plain was for a long time called the Mimika region. Mimika is the name of one of the sixty or so larger and smaller rivers, which flow through the plain to the sea. In 1910 Wollaston tried to reach the Carstensz Mountains by way of the Mimika (mouth at 1360 27' east long.). The expedition on that route came in touch with the inhabitants of the lower Mimika, and in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Oceania Wiley

FOLK‐TALES FROM NETHERLANDS NEW GUINEA

Drabbe, P.
Oceania , Volume 18 (2) – Dec 1, 1947
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© 1947 The University of Sydney
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10.1002/j.1834-4461.1947.tb00471.x
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HE following legends were told me in the Kamoro language (accent on the final syllable), the tongue spoken by the lowlanders of southern New Guinea, from the Opa River (mouth at 1340 45' east long.) to the Karumuga River (mouth at 137 0 5' east long.), a total population of 7,000 to 8,000. The language has a number of dialects, but the dialect in which these legends were told, called by the speakers themselves akwbe Tarjawatja, i.e. the Tarjawa or larja language, seems to me the dialects in which the Kamoro language is at its purest. This dialect is spoken along the following rivers: the Poraoka, the Kipja, the Maparpe, the Akare and the WiJ.muka. They are situated in the most westerly portion of the Kamoro Plain. This plain was for a long time called the Mimika region. Mimika is the name of one of the sixty or so larger and smaller rivers, which flow through the plain to the sea. In 1910 Wollaston tried to reach the Carstensz Mountains by way of the Mimika (mouth at 1360 27' east long.). The expedition on that route came in touch with the inhabitants of the lower Mimika, and in

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Published: Dec 1, 1947

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