Wam wagunoak wasin
Interview recorded by Herman Peters OFM for his thesis “Enkele hoofdstukken uit het sociaal-religieuze leven van een Dani-groep” published Dekker en van de Vegt, Utrecht, 1965. The interview was recorded in 1963-1964 in the Baliem Valley in West Papua. The interview is in the local language and deals with wagun-oak or the slaughtering of pigs to stop too much rain in the area of the Siep Gosi in the spring of 1964. There is a relation with the wagunmo that is the place where the spirits of the dead Siep-Gosi stay. It is a small remote square house in the forest or between the reed in which hang gourds for the spirits of the initiated and bundles of grasses for the spirits of the non-initiated. See page 73. Also indicated on the cover is hathale of unknown meaning, lejukmo a village of the Itlai-Hadluk and segan balin, making fire with a fire-saw. It is practised the day after the jogal isin, when girls get the skirt of a woman and described on page 124-125
The thesis has also been published in English with the title: "Some observations of the social and religious life of a Dani-group", Jayapura Lembaga Anthropologi Univ. Cenderawasih, 1975.
The tape is part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl. 
The tape is bigger 10 cm diameter than the one Herman Peters used usually 8 cm

Side A is 64’06 Side B is empty

Band 23 Wam Wagonoak Kant A

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