Description of Baikho festival and rituals

Biswanath Rabha Tara describes the origin, significance, and rituals of the Baikho festival. This festival celebrates the agricultural practices of the Rabha community. Rituals offer prayers to the goddess Baikho for growth and an abundant harvest.
Date: May 13, 2023
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla & Rabha, Subhash
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional narrative 'Bonkukura aru Bidhobar lora'

Prakash Rabha tells a traditional narrative about a widow's son who catches a sparrow in the field while cultivating jhum. He releases the sparrow because she promised to offer her to him her daughter.
Date: May 13, 2023
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla & Rabha, Subhash
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional narrative 'Bonkukura aru Bidhobar lora' and conversation about documenting Rabha

Prakash Rabha tells a traditional narrative about a widow's son who catches a sparrow in the field while cultivating jhum. He releases the sparrow because she promised to offer her to him her daughter. Then he describes ongoing efforts to document the Rabha language.
Date: May 13, 2023
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla & Rabha, Subhash
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional narrative 'Sabek Sakay'

Prakash Rabha tells a traditional narrative about a queen and her son who are mistreated and kill an elephant. While traveling at night, they are punished for killing the elephant by a woman on the road.
Date: May 13, 2023
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla & Rabha, Subhash
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional narrative 'To poidam'

Prakash Rabha tells a traditional narrative about a widow and her son who noticed birds pooping in their garden. After washing and preparing the vegetables, the boy said to the mother that (unlike the other day) the curry tasted very delicious, and he wanted to know what other ingredients were added to make it so tasty. His mother replied that she didn't add any spice, so it may be the bird poop which made the curry so tasty.
Date: May 13, 2023
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla & Rabha, Subhash
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional narratives 'Sabek Sakay' and 'To poidam'

Prakash Rabha tells two traditional narratives. In the first, a queen and her son are punished for killing an elephant. In the second, a mother and son notice a bird pooping in their garden.
Date: May 13, 2023
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla & Rabha, Subhash
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Letter to a family member

Recording of Biaki updating their family members on what has happened in the family while they've been traveling, and how the cousins are doing.
Date: November 13, 1985
Creator: Biaki
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative about Sheltoi Sankhil's grandmother transcript

Personal narrative about Sheltoi Sankhil's grandmother

Sumshot explains the IRB release form to Sheltoi (Adam) Sankhil. Sheltoi then tells a story about his grandma.
Date: January 13, 2018
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organization of knowledge and information in digital archives of language materials (open access)

Organization of knowledge and information in digital archives of language materials

This article reports the first empirical investigation of various dimensions of organization and representation of recorded knowledge and information in language archives. The study used a combination of semi-structured interviews and content analysis. Results demonstrate that, while some of the phenomena related to organization of information in language archives are specific to these types of archives, others are more typical and have been addressed by libraries in past research and practice.
Date: April 13, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of a traditional narrative of Bunghon Suungnem

Recording of Bunghon Suungnem translating a traditional narrative from Lamkang. Shekarnong Sankhil translating into English from the voice recording.
Date: March 13, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dataset for a retelling of the Pear Story: Robert

Dataset generated for a recording of Robert Leivon retelling the Pear Story. A transcription with an English translation, flextext files (from Fieldworks Language Explorer), and accompanying derivative files are included. The speaker was living in Delhi when the recording was made.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 71 Side A

Akha songs and narratives. Continued from Tape 67. 0-2 qá ma sjhə̀ há ə; 2-11 dɛ̀q máŋ sjhí jö̀ sjha ə; 11-[end] ná qɔ́ thó ə 24/10-78
Date: 1978-10-13/1978-10-24
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 902 Side A

Elicitation of a Hani word list featuring 2 utterances of each word in isolation by a male speaker. Recorded in Kunming, Yunnan province, China.
Date: March 13, 1981
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 905 Side A

Traditional musical performances recorded in Taipei.
Date: August 13, 1972
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 905 Side B

Traditional musical performances recorded in Taipei.
Date: August 13, 1972
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 913 Side A

Traditional musical performances and chanting recorded in Taipei.
Date: August 13, 1972
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a modern song 'Assam Ram'

Group performance of Assam Ram 'Assam's land,' an original song composed by Sukumar Sakachep.
Date: October 13, 2013
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a modern song 'Assam Ram'

Group performance of Assam Ram 'Assam's land,' an original song composed by Sukumar Sakachep.
Date: October 13, 2013
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a traditional instrument

Performance of a traditional string instrument in Joy Kumar Sakachep's home in Jailen village, Karimganj District, Assam.
Date: October 13, 2013
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of Aneovei ritual

Houjahen Haokip recites the ritual called Aneovei used to heal childhood sickness. He is a Thadou speaker from Manipur (currently living in Lambung village), around 80 years old at the time of recording. He was thought to be the only living Thadou priest in Lambung village at the time.
Date: February 13, 2013
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of food dedication

A native priest 'Ochai' dedicates food for the Puja festival in Jailen village, Karimganj District, Assam.
Date: October 13, 2013
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of the traditional song 'Daka daka'

Group performance of the traditional song Daka daka, accompanied by traditional instruments.
Date: October 13, 2013
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of the traditional song 'Dikna la'

Group performance of Dikna la, a traditional love song typically sung at weddings. This version is in Sakachep, accompanied by traditional instruments.
Date: October 13, 2013
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of the traditional song 'Louvat'

Group performance of the traditional song 'Louvat,' accompanied by traditional instruments. This song is typically sung while clearing jhum fields.
Date: October 13, 2013
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library