tepapa wooden board, plank / stomping boards. During [...]

1. • wooden board, plank

   Sense Comment

   gen

   • • Example 275:
       

       Li-avo tepapa ka li-apilo toñaki.

       They made planks (by splitting wood) to build a ship.

       Example URL

       https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003270#S2

     • Example 438:
       

       Mwoe iape, waiero peini vono i-somoli tae pe i-botongo ñe tepapa.

       His house was not destroyed by the tidal wave, because he had protected it with planks.

       Example URL

       https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003352#S121

2. • stomping boards. During ngapiene festivals, a blateno pole is erected in the middle of the village area (mane). Laid out in circle (~dai, ~dadai) around it, are a number of wooden boards half buried (~iu) in the ground, on which dancers leap and stomp (~viaene, ~wate) during the celebrations, in a loud and joyful dance.
   • • Ethn

   Sense Comment	esp
   Infobox	The stomping boards: ‘To make a stomping board, you cut a root of rosewood tree, and carve it in the shape of a semi-circle. Then you dig up the ground, and cover the hole with the board. Later, people will dance upon them, stomping for the noise it makes.’
   Infobox (Teanu)	tepapa: Tepapa, li-toe kara nebe li-bo nga kulaña metele. Awoiu li-ae tanoe li-la tepapa li-botongo ñi. Awoiu idi li-mako ne pongo li-viane me aña ini.

   • • Example 2106:
       

       Li-wate tepapa, li-viane tepapa ponu; ka li-pinoe pon ta ka li-mako.

       They were hitting the boards, stomping on the boards: such was their dance.

     • Example 2409:
       

       Li-ae kie tepapa i-dadai awoiu ponu, li-iu. Li-iu tepapa i-dai awoiu, blateno ka li-toe li-kamai.

       First they dug up the holes for the boards in a circle, then they buried the stomping boards. Finally, they cut a wooden pole and brought it.

       Example URL

       https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S114

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  • kie tepapa hole buried in the ground, used as a resonator underneath the stomping board during the ngapiene dances