FARE 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Tapa Cloth, Maisin Language, Areca Nut
1 Oct 2016
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Chapter 1: fieldwork among the maisin pages 5 to 39. Living in uiaku when barker"s wife"s university job ended, she would return to canada. Goodbye dinner women gathered with baskets of food, firewood, and blackened clay cooking pots. Filled pots with plantains, squash, sweet potatoes, pork, fish, and edible greens. As food cooked, men sat on the shaded shelter platform chewing betelnut, smoking, and discussing the day"s events. Invited to sit at the place of honour on a designed tapa cloth at the head of the shelter. Women crossed on their knees to place food in front of seated men. Senior men made speeches thanking barker and his wife for their work. Gave anne gifts of shell ornaments, flowers, and fragrant leaves. Uiaku was famed in papua new guinea for its traditional cloth. Brought tapa clothes and placed before anne had over 50 in total.
