Akha notebook 908 (open access)

Akha notebook 908

Handwritten notes and English translations of Akha songs and narratives about animals, opium, love, nature, and spirits originally transcribed in Akha notebooks 18-87.
Date: March 21, 1999
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 910 (open access)

Akha notebook 910

Handwritten notes and English translations of songs and narratives originally transcribed in Akha notebooks 87 and 88 and an untranslated ritual narrative.
Date: March 12, 1999
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of Lai Haraoba pena ballads and dance captions transcript

Performance of Lai Haraoba pena ballads and dance

Video of a festival featuring dance and pena performances. Elders are shown assembling the pena. Pena cholom is where a group of pena balladeers play together organized by ranks where the highest ranking balladeer plays first, and so on. The structure and components of the pena are described. Other instruments similar to the pena are shown, like tingteila of the Tangkhuls, and Laa of Kabui (Rongmei). The final segment includes a voice-over in English describing spirituality and symbolism of pena culture in Manipur, and the Lai Haraoba celebration.
Date: 1999
Creator: Audio Visual Research Centre
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Field notes from elicitations (open access)

Field notes from elicitations

Field notes from elicitations of common nouns (body parts, family members, colors, natural objects) and sentence structure. Sentence examples demonstrate negation, interrogatives, conditionals, and pronouns in Raji.
Date: 1998/2004
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
In the Shadow of the Tiger captions transcript

In the Shadow of the Tiger

Documentary about life in the villages surrounding the Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal (Shiltong, South Paro, North Paro, Rajabathkava, and Bothia villages). Villagers and government officials describe a project by the World Bank to create wildlife reserves for endangered species, specifically the Bengal tiger. Villagers struggle to grow enough food, and elephants trample their fields. They were told to resettle elsewhere, but refused to leave their ancestral lands. Selling firewood is a main source of income for most, leading to deforestation in the reserve areas. Government officials committed to providing infrastructure (irrigation, roads, electricity, fences) on the condition that villagers stop cutting down trees on the reserve. The documentary ends with a letter from Tileswar Rabha stating that the villagers have ended their communication with the Forest Department after they shot a villager carrying firewood.
Date: 1998
Creator: Grundström, Veena & Karlsson, Beppe
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on KokBorok phonology and word lists (open access)

Notes on KokBorok phonology and word lists

Handwritten notes on KokBorok phonology focusing on tone and phonotactics, with phoneme inventory and comparisons to Garo. Includes word lists ranging multiple semantic domains (kinship terms, numerals, animals, agriculture, natural world, colors, physical descriptors, verbs of motion, verbs of perception, body parts, interrogatives, and time).
Date: January 1997
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Orally transmitted texts of the minorities in East and Southeast Asia: Suggestions for research across borders (open access)

Orally transmitted texts of the minorities in East and Southeast Asia: Suggestions for research across borders

Pre-print manuscript about the value of orally transmitted texts, including excerpts of Akha texts translated into English.
Date: 1997/2004~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reduplication in Akha (open access)

Reduplication in Akha

Partial conference handout presenting examples of reduplication in Akha.
Date: 1997/2004~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lamkang Customary Law (open access)

The Lamkang Customary Law

Text of laws for the Lamkang Tribe, as of the Lamkang National Council General meeting on September 20, 1995.
Date: April 1996
Creator: Lamkang National Council
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arcni Rongtalgipa Joan (open access)

Arcni Rongtalgipa Joan

Illustrated story of Joan of Arc.
Date: 1996
Creator: Woodgate, M. V.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Interplay Between the Verb Particle 'É™' and the Sentence Particles in Akha (open access)

The Interplay Between the Verb Particle 'É™' and the Sentence Particles in Akha

Pre-print of a manuscript on Akha particles including paradigms and conversational examples.
Date: 1996~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Achikkuni Maambi (open access)

Achikkuni Maambi

Account of the history and classification of the Garo language which surveys existing material in Garo and compares Garo grammar and vocabulary with related languages (Tibetan, Kachari, Rabha, Assamese, etc.). Includes partial handwritten English translations.
Date: 1995
Creator: Sangma, Milton S.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akim (open access)

Akim

Play with 9 acts written in Garo.
Date: 1995
Creator: Momin, Barthon G.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maniani Bidik (open access)

Maniani Bidik

Book about Garo culture and poetry.
Date: 1995
Creator: Sangma, Mihir N.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Rabha field work and word lists (open access)

Notes on Rabha field work and word lists

Handwritten and typed notes on Rabha phonology with phoneme inventory and brief summary of Burling's work with Rabha consultants. Includes word lists in multiple semantic domains (natural world, body parts, animals, kinship terms, insects, physical descriptors) and notes on regional variation, Assamese influence, and comparisons to Garo, Khasi, Atong, Koch, and KokBorok.
Date: [1995..2005]
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mariako Mande Raani Salrang (open access)

Mariako Mande Raani Salrang

Book about Catholic beliefs referencing Bible excerpts. Includes illustrations.
Date: 1994
Creator: Mankin, Thomas
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Janggi Chiripram (open access)

Janggi Chiripram

Book about Catholic beliefs.
Date: 1993
Creator: Mankin, Thomas
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Komrem Hei Thuming-Yaihla Hei (open access)

Komrem Hei Thuming-Yaihla Hei

This is a collection of Kom folklore compiled by M. Telen, including stories about characters such as Bingpu, Achik, and Nempi, and descriptions of taboos.
Date: 1993
Creator: Telen, M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
A preliminary comparison of Hani and Akha funeral texts: Report on work in progress (open access)

A preliminary comparison of Hani and Akha funeral texts: Report on work in progress

Pre-print of a manuscript comparing Hani and Akha funeral texts, including excerpts.
Date: 1993/1997~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Achik Kattarang (open access)

Achik Kattarang

Book of word lists and sample sentences used for teaching the Garo language as a subject in primary schools.
Date: 1992
Creator: Sangma, Winnish K.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atchu-Ambini Golporang (open access)

Atchu-Ambini Golporang

Book of Garo folk tales.
Date: 1992
Creator: Shira, J. D.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hani funeral text (open access)

Hani funeral text

Typed transcription of a Hani funeral ritual narrative describing the underworld and the relationships between humans and the natural world.
Date: 1992
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Matini Gimin Seani (open access)

Matini Gimin Seani

Book of Bible translations and commentary.
Date: 1992
Creator: Momin, Pinsonath S.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Skichengani Kitap (open access)

Skichengani Kitap

Book of 30 lessons on the Garo alphabet, handwriting, and arithmetic. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1991
Creator: Busolin, B.; Thomas, Phadar K. A. & Joseph, Umbavu Varghese
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library