MEYAWE, the fruit 'meya' in the water

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Eric Vandendriessche , “MEYAWE, the fruit 'meya' in the water,” String figures, accessed February 24, 2026, https://stringfigures.huma-num.fr/items/show/312.
  • Overall presentation
  • Name : MEYAWE, the fruit 'meya' in the water

  • Creator : Eric Vandendriessche

  • Contributor(s) : Rachel, village of Bahaltalam, Ambrym, Vanuatu


  • Date : 2006
    2016-2017


  • Item references
  • Key words : String figures, Ambrym Island (Vanuatu)

  • Publisher : Laboratory SPHERE (UMR 7219, University of Paris & CNRS)

  • Rights : Creative Commons / Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA

  • Format : jpeg, eaf, mp4

  • Language : English, North Ambrymese language

  • Location : Village of Bahaltalam, North Ambrym, Vanuatu, South Pacific

  • Description : Ambrymese string figure, method of construction, linguistic data, cultural aspects

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