Tebi's funeral feast transcription and commentary ailoa0296 Documentation of Eibela

This is a recording of Nicks summarizing and translating the story told in session ailot0295 along with the hand-written transcription prepared by Grant and Stalone as a scanned pdf. This project consists in the documentation of Eibela, also called Aimele (ISO-639 AIL), as part of a PhD project at James Cook University which will ultimately result in a grammar of the language along with a dictionary and a corpus of texts. Eibela is a severely endangered language with 300 speakers in Lake Campbell, Western Province in Papua New Guinea. The complete hand-written transcription is provided as a scanned pdf of the researcher's field notebook. The audio recording is of Nicks summarizing and translating the story told in session ailot0295. Stalone and Nicks are Eibela men living in Lake Campbell. Grant Aiton is a PhD researcher transcribing the story in order to research the Eibela language. PhD Researcher conducting research on the Eibela language Date of birth is approximate.