The-custom-of-hoho-by-Sisma-Andrew

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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000C-F631-4

Title: Sisma Andrew: the custom of hoho

Description: This video along with TB25 (Sisma Andrew: What is the meaning of the word Hatohobei), TB30 (Sisma Andrew: message to granddaughter), TB27 (Sisma Andrew: the discovery of Helen Reef), TB28 (Nixon Andrew: Typhoon Haiyan), and TB29 (Nixon Andrew: Message to faraway daughter) was made as part of a training session with Nixon Andrew, one of the people who expressed interest in recording material for this project during the months the Blacks were not in Palau. Also present were Peter W. Black, David Tibbetts, Nixon’s mother Sisma Andrew, her sister Regina Andrew, and Sisma’s daughter, Carcia.Nixon Andrew filmed Sisma Andrew, assisted by her sister Regina, describing two versions of a traditional Tobian food exchange. Transcription by Peter W. Black is included here as tb26-04125-nab-2013-11-10.pdf. An extended discussion is included here as tb26-04126-nab-2013-11-10.pdf. Recorded: 2013-11-10.

Date created: 2013-11-10

Location

Continent: Oceania

Country: Palau

Region: Koror

Address: Malakal Hilltop

Project

ID: SG0242

Name: 0295-SG0242

Description: Tobian (Ramari Hatohobei) is the language of Tobi (Hatohobei), one of the Southwest Island states of the Republic of Palau, a Micronesian nation in the western Pacific. Severely endangered, Tobian is currently spoken by approximately 150 people. Tobian and the closely related languages of Sonsorol, Merir, and Pulo Anna, the other three Southwest Islands, are closely related to the languages spoken in the outer islands of Yap and Chuuk. Intensive work was done with elderly Tobian speakers to document their language through collection of vocabulary, stories, poems, songs, meetings, and discussions in their relevant socio-cultural context.