images of nonflowering plants. file names begin with fl (for "flora") plus "fern", "fungi", or "lichen". The lichen Pseudevernia is imported dry as a spice especially in Timbuktu.
Documentary videos of blacksmiths and carpenters (see also the work "construction and boatbuilding"). Credits are at the end of videos. Additional documentaries from Mali may be added later.
Documentary videos of food and beverage production by Bozo and Dogon people. Credits are at the end of videos. Additional documentaries from Mali may be added later.
Documentary videos showing fishing techniques chiefly of Bozo people (plus some Dogon). Credits are at the end of videos. Additional documentaries from Mali may be added later.
Documentary videos of farming and of foraging for useful native plants. Credits are at the end of videos. Additional documentaries from Mali may be added later.
Documentation of Dogon fox-track divination, a Dogon memorial altar, and a Bozo boat race. Credits are at the end of videos. Additional documentaries from Mali may be added later.
Documentary videos of construction of a granary and building a large skiff (boat). Credits are at the end of videos. Additional documentaries from Mali may be added later.
Each "work" in this collection is a set of documentary-style videos in mp4 (m4v) format. The initial (2023) set of works is as follows: "farming and plant gathering (Mali mp4)", "construction and boatbuilding (Mali mp4)", "fishing (Mali mp4)", "food and beverage preparation (Mali mp4)", metalwork and woodwork (Mali mp4)", "cultural events (Mali mp4)", "firearms and gunpowder (Mali mp4)", "pottery (Mali mp4)", and "weaving and dyeing (Mali mp4)". Funding: National Science Foundation, Documenting Endangered Languages program. The readme's for each work give further details. Additional works with new videos may be added in the future.
See also the Deep Blue Data collections "Burkina Faso documentary videos" and "Central Mali documentary videos". The latter contains Mali videos archived in 2018.
This is the flora-fauna lexical material obtained in the course of more general lexical and grammatical fieldwork on languages of central-eastern Mali (Dogon, Songhay, Bangime, Bozo). The spreadsheets in this work, duplicated in xlsx and csv formants, present our flora-fauna lexicons as of early 2019 for many languages of central-eastern Mali, and certain languages of southwestern Burkina Faso. The Malian data is in two spreadsheets (flora, fauna), while the Burkina data is in separate spreadsheets for flora, birds, fish, insects, lizards and snakes, and mammals. Please begin with the “readme” document.
Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. https://dogonlanguages.org and Christfried Naumann & Tom Güldemann & Steven Moran & Guillaume Segerer & Robert Forkel (eds.) 2015. Tsammalex: A lexical database on plants and animals. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. https://tsammalex.clld.org