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accumulated by Heiner and his* wife were not easily come by. “It took us a year and a half o negotiating with the bureaucracy before we were allowed access to the tribe and once we got there it took nine months, working 12 and 13 hour days on nothing but the language, before we could converse freely with the natives.”
During their first months with the Wowsha language was not the onlv Droblem the Heiners faced. At one point the chief decided he didn’t like them and tried to throw them out. “ My wife had been adopted as the chiefs daughter. That made me his son-in-law and under their system of kinship most of the young men in the village were my brothers-in-law, all the elders were my fat hers-in-law and all the elder women were my mothers-in-law. One Of the strictly observed customs in the tribe is that you have a very formal relationship with all your in-laws, so formal that to call any of them by their first name is a terrible offense. I had a wicked time because 1 could not utter the names of 50 percent of the people in the village. So I made slip-ups. And there
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