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Discussion of medicinal plants

Audio recording of companion video of Shobhana Chelliah talking with Anudon Sankhil in her garden.
Date: February 2, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of The Pear Story: Dilbung Kennedy transcript

Retelling of The Pear Story: Dilbung Kennedy

The Pear Story as retold by Dilbung Kennedy of Khorpii
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of the Pear Story: Robert transcript

Retelling of the Pear Story: Robert

A retelling of the Pear Story by Robert Leivon of Khorpii
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of The Pear Story: Grace transcript

Retelling of The Pear Story: Grace

A retelling of the Pear Story as told by Grace Sankhil of Phaidaam Pantha. Grace was living in Delhi at the time of this recording.
Date: January 11, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about a woman's field of study transcript

Conversation about a woman's field of study

Beshot Khullar of Phaidaam Pantha Phaidaam asks a series of questions to a Lamkang student. Examples of the questions he asks are, 'What do you do?' and 'How big is your family?'
Date: August 27, 2009
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of My Children's Food transcript

Retelling of My Children's Food

Daniel Tholung of Thamlakhuren recites the traditional story of "My Children's Food," which tells the story of a cockroach eating the baby's food and the chain of events that follow. The story has been written and illustrated in a book by Sumshot Khular, Tony Khular of Thamlakhuren and Sankhil Moses of Thamlapokpi. It was written with the help of literacy experts at the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Date: 2011
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of a traditional narrative about the squirrel transcript

Retelling of a traditional narrative about the squirrel

Theipa paomin [The Squirrel story] as told by Sankhil Bunghon of Keithelmanbi. This traditional narrative follows a well-known feature of stacked causally related events where one misadventure leads to another. It includes a traditional form of seeking justice from a court of elders and of personification of animals.
Date: 2009
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retellings of traditional narratives by elders

Shangchrek Tholung narrated the Raalngam story, Arthluk and Raangchal. The second story of Raapaa by Shetphong Sankhil. The third story by Swamy Tholung Ksen the story Arthluk and Raangchal.
Date: February 2, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about the hospital in Chandel and preparing for the Totlang Kam festival

Recording of Beshot Khullar and Rengpu Rex Khullar discussing about preparing for the Totlang Kam festival. There are three tracks. The first is the voice of Harimohon Thounaojam encouraging the speakers to pick a topic of conversation. The back and forth is clearly produced for the sake of the recorder and often resembles an interview rather than conversation.
Date: May 18, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of Har Khuungpaa and Puulraang

Men and women singing and sancing Har Khuungpaa and Puulraang
Date: 2004
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monolgue on the Totlang Festival

A discussion of the Totlang Festival by Shekarnong Sankhil.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue about how the Lamkang name their children

How the Lamkang name their children as explained by Shekarnong Sankhil.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Interview about traditional naming practices

Traditional naming practices discussed by Shekarnong Sankhil
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue about clan names

Clan Names explained by Shekarnong Sankhil
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about Benglam

Beshot Khullar tells a Benglam Story.
Date: August 26, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the Pear Story: Shekarnong

A retelling of the pear story as narrated by Shekarnong Sankhil
Date: December 10, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue about the Totlang festival and landholding

Recording of a description of the Totlang festival and landholding.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of prefixes transcript

Elicitation of prefixes

Chris Button eliciting prefixes with Sumshot Khular
Date: March 28, 2017
Creator: Button, Chris
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of syllable tapping experiment transcript

Elicitation of syllable tapping experiment

Melissa Robinson performing the syllable tapping experiment with Shangnung Shankhil.
Date: June 12, 2017
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of compound words transcript

Elicitation of compound words

Melissa Robinson eliciting compound words with Angam Shankhil.
Date: June 9, 2017
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of syllable tapping experiment transcript

Elicitation of syllable tapping experiment

Melissa Robinson performing the syllable tapping experiment with Ringdom Shilshi.
Date: June 12, 2017
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of verb tones transcript

Elicitation of verb tones

Melissa Robinson eliciting the tones of various verbs with Sumshot Khular.
Date: July 21, 2016
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of how to make ironba transcript

Description of how to make ironba

Rex Khullar of Phaidaam Pantha explains how to make a traditional Lamkang spicy chutney called ironba.
Date: 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a harvest song transcript

Performance of a harvest song

At the University of North Texas, Shekarnong Sankhil sings a harvest song.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Sankhil, Shekarnong
System: The UNT Digital Library