RS1-026 - mini-DV tape 1 hour

Begins with a short recording of Jenny Inmulugulu speaking to a community meeting (transcription file: RS1-026_trans01.eaf). Then has Miriam Kris giving a text that adds some more information about the girls' first period ceremony to what she had mentioned previously (transcription file: RS1-026_trans02). Then Miriam Kris tells two stories in Mawng: The story of the coming of the first missionary (RS1-026_trans03.eaf) The story about an meeting with mining companies (RS1-026_trans04.eaf). Then she tells the story of the first missionary in English. Then Miriam Kris and Nita Garidjalalug tell two stories together: the story of the coming of the first missionary in English (RS1-026_trans05.eaf) the story of a buffalo who swum ashore not long before the recording (RS1-026_trans06.eaf). Then they both discuss plants pictures in Brock, J. 2001. Plants of the Northern Territory. Sydney: New Holland (not transcribed as there is not a lot of Mawng). (For more information on the time-aligned transcriptions see RS1-026_transindex.txt). Language as given: Mawng, Kunwinjku, Iwaidja, Kun-barlang