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25213 - Middle Sepik - Suggest reassigning song to a more specific society or moving society lat-lon #203

Open stellasilbert opened 2 years ago

stellasilbert commented 2 years ago

Society 25213 has two songs assigned to it, one of which is an instrumental song that has been removed from the published sample. Both songs have this note in the metadata: "Middle Sepik is a location marker, it is used here as a culture due to incomplete field notes for this track."

Since there is essentially only one song assigned to this vague society, I suggest reassigning it to society 16963 (Iatmul), making a note in the metadata that it is an unclear match, and removing society 25213. Reasoning: Iatmul is a large ethnic group located along the Middle Sepik river, and has sometimes been referred to just as "Sepik."

If that is too presumptuous, then I would suggest changing the society lat-lon for society 25213 to -4.22, 142.83, to be located more centrally in the Middle Sepik region.