DKH01-057_tomba_kunda - Tomba kunda ‘Roots of the oil tree’
- Description:
- This string figure represents the roots of tomba, a large swamp forest canopy tree Campnosperma brevipetiolata (Anacardiaceae), in Tok Pisin oil diwai ‘the oil tree’, sometimes also known as ‘tigasso’. The Awiakay tap the tree for its oily substance known as ‘tigasso oil’, which is used for impregnating bows and arrows (Hoenigman 2007: 86), as well as a remedy for healing wounds. As such it was...
- Display date:
- 2018
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- Paradisec Catalog
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- Paradisec
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