Two sisters haus win chat afi231016ii Documentation of Chini

Two sisters, Ros and Agusta, chew betel nut in Ros' haus win overlooking the Sogeram, in their hamlet which is the westernmost Chini settlement in Andamang territory. At first Frank decides to give them detailed instructions and I worry this will stress them out, so I try to explain they can just do whatever. They chat and laugh a bit, Ros spends the time preparing some yarn to make a bilum. Frank and I leave and go to the bush to get some sugarcane and come back later to join the two of them. We chat for a short while. Once we leave, the two sisters continue by producing joint monologues, each speaking at length for a while and then letting the other have a turn. Total audiovisual duration [56:21]