Nafe (Kwamera)

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Speaker: Wahe Martial

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Wahe Martial

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ganhɨk]

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Chanos chanos via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[jare̤mə̤] n.

Example: This plant is used to treat diarrhea in a baby 1-6 months old. The mother takes 4, 1" pieces and chews them, spitting it into the baby’s mouth 2x daily, once in the morning and once in the afternoon until the diarrhea stops. Sometimes if the baby is sick from a spirit such as a yam, taro or sea spirit, the mother takes 2, 1" pieces of stem and 2, 1" pieces of Acalypha wilkesiana petiole (Plunkett et.al. #3081) and chews the two species together and spits on the affected baby, telling the spirit to "go away and leave the baby alone.

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: When a person drinks the water from this fruit, it does not seem very sweet. The local name refers to “expired,” meaning that the fruit has expired and therefore the juice is not very sweet

Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Lyle Vail / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lutjanus kasmira via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Scientific name: Lutjanus lutjanus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Zosterops vellalavella, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: This is a "calendar plant," tied to the sea. When it flowers, it is time to harvest sea urchins. The dry wood is used to mke a fire when a person has no matches.

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[karat]

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Droka

Example: eatable shell, boiled in the saucepan or roasted in the fire

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Sargocentron cornutum via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Example: It is said that when children play in the bush they like to find this coconut to eat. The local name refers to children—small in size, just like a child. It is not considered a good variety for an adult to eat

Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: People use this plant as a medicine to treat bad knees. Peel the bark, take 1 handful and put it in a cup of water until the water becomes black. Drink it 3x daily as needed until the knee pain disappears and the knee heals. Children use the seeds as a glue in school work.

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Eaten ripe; children love this cultivar as it is very sweet

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Ctenochaetus striatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Sargocentron violaceum via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[mɨriaki]

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. nalalas

Speaker: Phillip Wahe

[nam nak] n.

Scientific name: Crateva religiosa, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Example: Stem used for sawn timber.

Scientific name: Virola surinamensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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Example: Children from Tanna and throughout Vanuatu use this plant to make a slingshot. As a "medicine," when chickens are ruining your garden, if you plant this plant it will chase away the chickens.

Scientific name: Ervatamia orientalis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Scientific name: Geophila repens, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: When this plant flowers, along with an unspecified white flower, people know that a certain shellfish, locally known as Bari, is ready to harvest and eat.

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Fuel: Firewood Construction: Used to construct posts for houses. Tools: Wood is used to fashion handles for axes. Hunting: Wood is used to make the limbs of a bow. It is not considered the most suitable wood for this purpose.

Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Root is sold to earn money, as perfume and oil is from this. Grandparents used to dry the wood over a cooking fire in a kitchen when a person would get the flu. To help, they’d take dried and heated wood, scrape one cup’s worth into hot water, and then breathe over the steam bath. Drink water afterwards. Do thhis once a day for three days.

Scientific name: Santalum austrocaledonicum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nima purupuo] n.

Speaker: Jean Eskar

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Example: Wood is very hard and good for making canoe. Wood is good to build house (house posts). Takes seeds from dried fruit, break them open, boil in water and collect oil that rises to the top. This oil used as massage oil. Rub oil from dried seeds in hair to kill lice.

Scientific name: Calophyllum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: Animal Feed: The whole plant is fed to pigs to keep them fat and healthy. It is referred to as “pig medecine” and is given once per week.

Scientific name: Cyrtandra obovata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: 1. Ripe fruits are used by children in a game to imitate the devil. 2. It is considered tapu to make firewood from this tree. It tis thought the yam stems will dry and the fruits will be sub-par as a result.

Scientific name: Melastoma malabathricum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: People use this to treat skin sores, by boiling a handful of leaves in a small amount of water and washing the sores with this. Wash 2-3x daily until the sore is better. It may take 3-4 weeks to heal the sore.

Scientific name: Pyrrosia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes its bed with the fronds of this fern.

Scientific name: Austroblechnum melanoaulon, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nuːri] n.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Acanthurus dussumieri via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by flecksy / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Zizina labradus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

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Example: Hunting: The wood of the tree is used, as the body of a spear, to hunt fishes and turtles. To fashion the spear, an appropriate length of wood is cut, debarked, heated (to straighten) and then topped with an iron point. Note: Iaruman is the name of the male form of this plant. Prane is the female form of this plant. This plant is considered the same as Rapanea amischocarpa.

Scientific name: Tapeinosperma scrobiculatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kruket

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Megalops cyprinoides via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

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Example: Leaves used to cover laplap and wrap and boil in pot. Kids use papaya petiole to shoot seeds -- game of hide and seen called chung.

Scientific name: Canna indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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Example: People use this to cover or wrap banana and cassava prior to cooking in a boiling pot; when the food is cooked the leaf is discarded. Flowers used for decoration. This is an imported cultivated plant.

Scientific name: Heliconia indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Take a coconut leaf, take out the midribs so it becomes a sharp spine, impale the seeds on this, and light them for use as a torch. Leaf used to cover earth oven, and can be put between the stones and the wrapped cooking leaves in order to keep the food clean. Children play with the seeds as marbles

Scientific name: Ricinus communis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Naso annulatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

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Scientific name: Aphareus furca via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Atule mate via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Naso unicornis via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: If it grows in good conditions, the tubers are so large that it takes two people to carry it on a pole

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by J. E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via FishBase

Scientific name: Parupeneus insularis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe