Achik Golporang Part 2 (open access)

Achik Golporang Part 2

Book of Garo stories and poems.
Date: March 15, 1962
Creator: Sangma, Dhoronsing K.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 93 (open access)

Akha notebook 93

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha death rituals.
Date: June 15, 1978
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 111 (open access)

Akha notebook 111

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha proverbs, conversations, and word lists of multi-word expressions.
Date: 1978-11-15/1978-11-20
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of the The Frog and the Tiger

Recording of Sumshot Khular reading and translating the story of The Frog and the Tiger with Tyler Utt.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about rice cultivation and harvest

Menoka, Monji, and Purnima discuss their paddy fields, chores, dishes they are preparing, and what they plan to buy at the market. The older women describe changes in crops and food over time, expressing concern about the climate, overall crop yield and quality, and the youth's general lack of knowledge of traditional agricultural practices.
Date: October 15, 2022
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about tourism in Chhitkul village captions transcript

Conversation about tourism in Chhitkul village

Ram Kumar and Bhag Singh Negi debate the pros and cons of tourism in Chhitkul village. Neither of them is directly involved in any business related to tourism, which allows for a frank debate. The recording was made at the Government Senior Secondary School in Chhitkul village, where Kumar is a teacher.
Date: October 15, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of making épob

Aijoni Medok demonstrates the process of making épob, a medicine that is added to apong (rice beer). Leaves of medicinal plants including ríkom, injari, and tiːné anné are dried and pounded in kiːpar (large mortar and pestle). Then, the mixture is formed into balls and dried in the sun. Finally, these balls are squeezed with hands, and the powder is spread in the apong and mixed into the grains used to make apong.
Date: October 15, 2022
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of Rongmei ceremonies

Banbuna Gangmei describes the traditional ceremonies of the Rongmei in the presence of other elders of Ngaselong village in Lakhipur subdivision of Cachar, Assam. He is 60 years old at the time of recording.
Date: November 15, 2013
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of Rongmei traditional religion

Gaingamlungpou, a native speaker of Rongmei, describes the traditional religion of the Rongmei. He is a resident of Ngaselong village in the Lakhipur subdivision of Cachar district of Assam. He is 67 years old at the time of recording.
Date: November 15, 2013
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of Saihriem marriage system

Chongpu Chongloi describes the marriage system of the Saihriem as practiced by their traditional forefathers. He is a native speaker of Saihriem from Noxa Tila, Cachar District, Assam, around 85 years old at the time of recording.
Date: August 15, 2012
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of separating husks from paddy leaves

Purnima Medok demonstrates how to separate the husks from paddy leaves and describes the cultivation process. She says the paddies are sown during the month of ahar (June). After harvesting, the men carry the paddy to the kumsung (a house to keep the harvest). Next, the paddy leaves are separated through the process demonstrated here before it can be dried and later milled. They grow multiple rice varieties including bor zangiya, bora sokua, and ampi. She explains that mixing varieties together enhances the flavor. She especially enjoys feeding her children and grandchildren with rice she has stored in tin boxes.
Date: October 15, 2022
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of tea plantation methods, part 1

Bipul Medok describes how his tea plantation was established in 2016. He says the saplings reached maturity after 1.5 years and now produce tea leaves weekly. He cultivates varieties of tea including TS 520 and TS 22 on 12 bighas (~7.5 acres) of land and pays laborers daily.
Date: October 15, 2022
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of tea plantation methods, part 2

Bipul Medok describes the fertilizers and pesticide methods used on his tea plantation including urea and MOP (potassium chloride). In addition to tea, he grows siris amíng, neem, and black pepper plants.
Date: October 15, 2022
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of tea plantation methods, part 3

Bipul Medok describes the functions of the siris trees planted between tea plants. They support the black pepper plants' vines, and produce leaves which are are used as an organic fertilizer for the tea plants. He says the wood of the siris tree can also be used as firewood, and may be suitable for making furniture.
Date: October 15, 2022
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussion of a writing sample transcript

Discussion of a writing sample

Discussion of a written sample from an SIL writing workshop. The purpose is to understand the writing system and to learn about grammatical constructions from a variety of speakers.
Date: March 15, 2008
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation about possessive pronouns transcript

Elicitation about possessive pronouns

This is a recording of an elicitation about possessive pronouns demonstrating how possession is expressed in Mankiyali. English sentences are used as prompts. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: November 15, 2019
Creator: Paramore, Jonathan Charles
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of adverbial clauses transcript

Elicitation of adverbial clauses

This is a recording of an elicitation of adverbial clauses in Mankiyali based on English sentences used as prompts. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: November 15, 2019
Creator: Paramore, Jonathan Charles
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of noun forms transcript

Elicitation of noun forms

Recording of an elicitation of noun forms based on number and gender to demonstrate the Mankiyali lexical stress patterns in various word forms. In this elicitation, the native speaker, Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher), provides the English word as a prompt and another native speaker, Muhammad Suleman (a 36-year old male teacher) provides the Mankiyali equivalent of that word.
Date: February 15, 2021
Creator: Aurangzeb
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of words for seasons and months transcript

Elicitation of words for seasons and months

Recording of an elicitation of a word list for seasons and months. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: October 15, 2019
Creator: Dale, Merrion
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue on festivals transcript

Monologue on festivals

Recording of Bano reciting a cultural account on festivals in the Hunza dialect of Burushaski.
Date: September 15, 2011
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue on the Bo Phaw festival transcript

Monologue on the Bo Phaw festival

Recording of Bano reciting a cultural account of "bo phaw" in the Hunza dialect of Burushaski.
Date: September 15, 2012
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue on the history of polo transcript

Monologue on the history of polo

Recording of Wazir Abbas telling the History of Polo in the Nagar dialect. Abbas claims that the modern version of Polo on horses originated in Nagar. He then tells of a battle between the people of Nagar and Hunza.
Date: October 15, 2012
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Tiwa phonology and grammar (open access)

Notes on Tiwa phonology and grammar

Handwritten notes on Tiwa phonology (tone, glottals, syllable structure) and grammar (case, adverbials, compounds, classifiers, negation) with sample sentences and phrases. Includes word lists ranging multiple semantic domains (animals, body parts, natural world, household, agriculture, verbs of motion/ break/ cut/ carry/ burn/ boil, time, and health).
Date: 2000-11-15/2000-12-18
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance at the Naga Seed Sowing festival

Group performance of specially choreographed music and dance mixing different forms of folk dance and songs of ritual occasions and presented in the State Level Lui-Ngai-Ni (Naga Seed Sowing festival) held in Kapaam village in Chandel District, Manipur.
Date: February 15, 2023
Creator: Khaling, Mosyel Syelsaangthyel
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library