MaryBodhiAkany_songWomenOfNyibodo

The women of Nyibodo love their husbands very much because they are lacking nothing in their houses. When Nyikango quarrelled with Okwer son of Jiw, the ancestor of Kwawaang clan, they separated and Nyikango moved ahead to leave in Nyilwal, Panyikango. But Nyikango asked Okwer not to forget their friendship by giving him hippo meat every year. This agreement is respected up to this day. When men go hunting and bring the hippo meat to Nyibodo, women prepare it and place it in canoes so that it is rowed to Pachodo; so, women are important here in this work. This item consists of a recorded Shilluk song (wav file), accompanied with annotation (in Praat TextGrid) and associated information: metadata, permissions and speaker questionnaire. The associated information is also summarized, in a spreadsheet. The TextGrid annotation includes Shilluk orthography, translation, and comments.