Performance of house building songs

Phenlakbou Marenmai briefly describes and performs the songs sung while building traditional grand house and common houses in the village.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of a traditional Burusho house captions transcript

Description of a traditional Burusho house

Video of Muhibuddin describing (in Urdu) a traditional Burusho house in the village Sultanabad, Gilgit.
Date: July 31, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about involvement in the Lamkang culture

Monologue on his involvement in Lamkang Culture by Angpol Shilshi of Lamkang Wangjangloon village. This recording is part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research project of Sumshot Khular's collection.
Date: January 17, 2017
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about the status of women in Karbi society

This is a conversation of the status of women in Karbi society; the lady interviewed is Ms. Kare Rongpipi, and the interview was conducted by Mr. Bhudeswar Timung. Ms. Rongpipi points out the ways in which women have traditionally played a very important role in Karbi society.
Date: November 23, 2011
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue on musical instruments captions transcript

Monologue on musical instruments

Recording of Yasin Burushos from Hundur talking about musical instruments used in Yasin.
Date: July 26, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of cooking alkaline food: part 1

This is a description of cooking alkaline food by burning jhum fields and using the ashes.
Date: April 2, 2010
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the story of a man and his cunning wife

Recording of a traditional narrative where a cunning wife puts her husband to test by pretending to be ill all the time. The husband uses all possible means to cure her but to no avail. He then asks his wife to suggest what else he could do to cure her. She asks him to disgrace his mother. He disgraces her mother instead. His wife is shocked to see this. However, he responds to her saying that he did what she had asked him to do in order to cure her illness. The narrator Abdul Qayum (a 60-year old male factory worker) is narrating the story to two young speakers of Mankiyali (Abdul Haq and Aurangzeb).
Date: July 14, 2019
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of a traditional house in Danyor village captions transcript

Description of a traditional house in Danyor village

Recording of Muhib Uddin Hunzai, a speaker of Hunza Burushaski from Gilgit, describing a traditional house of Hunza. The recording was made in Danyor, a small village near Gilgit town.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Allama Nasiruddin Hunzai reciting anecdotes about "Qadiro" captions transcript

Allama Nasiruddin Hunzai reciting anecdotes about "Qadiro"

Recordings of Allamah Nasiruddin Nasir Hunzai reciting anecdotes about "Batta Qadiro" (now called 'Wazir Qadiro'), a legendary wise man in the former state of Hunza.
Date: August 4, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library