Mundugumorn.adj.
/mʊnˈduːɡʊmɔː/, U.S. /ˌmənˈduɡəˌmɔr//mʊnˈduːɡʊmə/, U.S. /ˌmənˈduɡəmə/ A. n.
1. A member of a people living on the banks of the Yuat River in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Now more commonly called Biwat.
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1935 M. Mead Sex & Temperament Primitive Societies ix. 169 The Mundugumor now number some thousand people.
1964 Man 64 11/2 The use among the Mundugumor..of conventionalized eyes as surrogates for whole faces.
1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Sepik River The isolation of the river's small tribal groups, including the Arapesh, Iatmul, and Mundugumor, from external influences has given rise to one of the most original and extensive artistic traditions in Oceania.
2. Frequently in form Munduguma. The Sepik-Ramu language of the Mundugumor people. Now usually called Biwat.
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1949 M. Mead Male & Female v. 121 The river upon which they now live changed its course, and finally divided the Mundugumor-speaking peoples in two.
1977 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Classif. & Index World's Langs. 181 Andamanese... Biwat = Munduguma.
1996 B. F. Grimes Ethnologue (ed. 13) 860 Biwat (Mundugumor, Munduguma)... East Sepik Province.
B. adj. (attributive).
Of or relating to the Mundugumor or their language.
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1935 M. Mead Sex & Temperament Primitive Societies ix. 167 We gradually learned the structure and emphasis of Mundugumor life.
1973 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 78 1016 How American middle-class boys and girls do block designs has not yet been systematically compared with the efforts of Arapesh and Mundugumor or Arab and Chinese girls and boys.
1990 Man 25 438 The Mundugumor material is extremely limited.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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