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Title:Legend of Motu Na'o (Ua Pou island)
Motu_Na-o-B
The documentation of the Marquesan languages and culture in French Polynesia
Contributor:B
Gaby Cablitz
Contributor (annotator):Gaby Cablitz
Coverage:French Polynesia
Date:1999-08-28
Description:The legend of Motu Na'o (lit. " island disappear") is a legend about the origins of the Hakatao-people on Ua Pou island. According to the legend the tribe of the Hakatao-people came from an island close to Fatu Iva. Their island disappeared in the ocean and its inhabitants escaped on seven canoes to the valley of Hakatao (Ua Pou). On their way to Hakatao they were guided by their god Tau'api'i'ani.
The project documents several different aspects of the Marquesan culture (legends, narratives, food preparation, plant medicine, fishing techniques, Marquesan trick languages, songs, dances etc.)
This file was generated from an IMDI 1.9 file and transformed to IMDI 3.0. The substructure of Genre is replaced by two elements named "Genre" and "SubGenre". The original content of Genre substructure was: Interactional = 'Unspecified', Discursive = 'Unspecified', Performance = 'narrative'. These values have been added as Keys to the Content information.
North Marquesan is the only language used in that session. Before and after the recording (not part of the session) French was used for explanations.
The only language spoken throughout the session is North Marquesan. The collector interacts briefly with B during the narrative. There were no other observers present.
B is fluent in French and Tahitian, also some good basic knowledge of English. He was brought up in the valley of Hakata'o on 'Ua Pou island; until the age of nine he did not attend a school as there were no schools in his valley. He learnt a lot of legends from his grandparents and older people of his valley. When he was a child there was no electricity (ie. TV or radio), and thus story-telling was one of the major attractions during their spare time. He is a primary school teacher.
Former Ph.D-student at the MPI for Psycholinguistics at the language acquisition group (W.Klein); during her PhD-scholarship she undertook three field trips to the North Marquesas islands (Nuku Hiva, Ua Pou).
Pawley, A.K. (1966). Internal relationships of Polynesian languages and dialects. In: Journal of the Polynesian society 75:39-64. Green, R. (1966). Linguistic subgrouping within Polynesia: the implications for prehistoric settlement. In: Journal of the Polynesian society 75:6-38.
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Publisher:Gaby Cablitz, George Teikiehuupoko (Marquesas), Edgar Tetahiotupa (Tahiti)
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Académie Marquisienne (Tuhuna 'Eo 'Enata)
Subject:Discourse
Narrative
North Marquesan language
Marquesan, North
French language
Subject (ISO639):mrq
fra
Type:audio

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Citation: B; Gaby Cablitz; Gaby Cablitz (annotator). 1999-08-28. Gaby Cablitz, George Teikiehuupoko (Marquesas), Edgar Tetahiotupa (Tahiti).
Terms: area_Europe area_Pacific country_FR country_PF iso639_fra iso639_mrq

Inferred Metadata

Country: FranceFrench Polynesia
Area: EuropePacific


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