[Story and lexical elicitation]
- Item identifier: 2018-03.001
- Date: Aug 1965
- Contributors: Christine George (consultant); Veronica Johnson (consultant); Lawrence Joseph (consultant, translator); Gladwyn Kingsley Noble Jr. (researcher); Manjari Ohala (donor)
- Languages: Atorai (aox); Wapishana (wap)
- Place: Rupununi River, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, Guyana
- Description: File 2018-03.001_A begins with Veronica Johnson telling a story in Wapishana about how she heard of a murder; at 3'12" it continues with Christine George providing Atorai vocabulary with the assistance of Wapishana-speaking translator Lawrence Joseph. The vocabulary was "first given" on August 4, 1965, and appears to correspond to unknown notebook pages abbreviated "4/8-1-14." File 2018-03.001_B begins with Christine George providing Atorai vocabulary in the same format, here the date of recording indicated as August 12, 1965. At 26'30" G.K. Noble begins checking Wapishana vocabulary with Lawrence Joseph; Noble attempts to pronounce several tokens himself and Joseph provides additional explanation for some terms. The first Atorai segment appears to correspond to to unknown notebook pages abbreviated "5/8-14," with the final segment corresponding to "25/6-2&3."
- Availability: Online access
- Extent: 1 reel
- Catalog history: Reel 1 sides A & B
- Collection: Linguistic Materials on Indigenous Languages of Guyana
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: [Story and lexical elicitation], 2018-03.001, in "Linguistic Materials on Indigenous Languages of Guyana", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2QZ2906.
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