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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
Rungsari Pratima Kacharini sungdo jiu jarimin (open access)

Rungsari Pratima Kacharini sungdo jiu jarimin

This is a souvenir of late Pratima Kachari including messages from Mr. Maheswar Basumatary, Secretary of All Bodo Students' Union and Mrs. Supriya Rani Brahma, President of All Bodo Women's Welfare Federation, a biographical sketch, and a poem about Pratima Kachari written by Kartik, her husband.
Date: May 14, 1995
Creator: Boro, Kiran
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about a dream

Recording of family members talking informally about dreams, sleeping, and visiting. Thangpuii is the main speaker, but she is interrupted by the rest of the family making small talk and offering to help with her swollen joints. Visitors and family members are talking in the background.
Date: January 1990
Creator: Rema, C. L.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about Darphawka

Recording of a story about a historical figure named Darphawka. During the story, Thangi interjects to ask questions. Conversations like this will be valuable for Mizo language teachers to give their students a model for naturalistic speech because they do not follow the prescriptive rules.
Date: 1990~
Creator: Rema, C. L.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to Culture and Language of Kom (open access)

Introduction to Culture and Language of Kom

This book gives an overview of the canon of Kom folklore and customs such as weaving, hunting, traditional clothing, domestication of animals, and social practices like marriage, kinship, and naming children.
Date: March 20, 1990
Creator: Kilong, Mangpu
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of common words

Elicitation of common nouns including body parts, family members, household items, clothing, and the natural world, and question words. Kushal Singh helps translate. Recorded in the Altodi Raji hamlet.
Date: November 16, 1998
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Sound
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
Kom Rem Thut (open access)

Kom Rem Thut

This is a collection of texts in Kom including folklore and histories of relation between Kom and groups in surrounding areas such as Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tripura.
Date: March 21, 1992
Creator: Kom, K. Shonjachung
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

Elicitation of simple sentences

Elicitation of simple sentences in Raji including pronouns, grammatical gender, negation, and interrogatives. Recorded in Bhagichaura.
Date: November 17, 1998
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
History of India in Garo. Ninth edition. (open access)

History of India in Garo. Ninth edition.

Book about Indian history used to teach middle school including 53 lessons and a timeline of major leaders spanning 1740-1982.
Date: 1990
Creator: Momin, K. W.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of Kom women and men in traditional dress

Photograph of Kom women and men in traditional dress at Manipur University.
Date: 1998?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
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
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
A Puo Kekhrie (open access)

A Puo Kekhrie

Book of 8 chapters in Angami Naga about cultural traditions such as rituals and festivals.
Date: 1992
Creator: Shürhozelie, Liezietsu
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library