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Description of a traditional dish

This is a a description about preparing a dish. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 9, 2009
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

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

Performance of Baikho ritual chants

Jontri Cherenga performs chants used in rituals of the Baikho festival which celebrates the agricultural practices of the Rabha community.
Date: May 14, 2023
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla & Rabha, Subhash
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of Baikho ritual chants

Jontri Cherenga performs chants used in rituals of the Baikho festival which celebrates the agricultural practices of the Rabha community.
Date: May 14, 2023
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla & Rabha, Subhash
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of Baikho ritual chants

Jontri Cherenga performs chants used in rituals of the Baikho festival which celebrates the agricultural practices of the Rabha community.
Date: May 14, 2023
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla & Rabha, Subhash
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of Baikho ritual chants

Jontri Cherenga performs chants used in rituals of the Baikho festival which celebrates the agricultural practices of the Rabha community.
Date: May 14, 2023
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla & Rabha, Subhash
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of Baikho ritual chants and traditional narratives

Jontri Cherenga performs chants used in rituals of the Baikho festival and tells traditional narratives. The Baikho festival celebrates the agricultural practices of the Rabha community.
Date: May 14, 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 'Hiti aru Abatgiri'

Jontri Cherenga tells the traditional narrative 'Hiti aru Abatgiri' about a farmer and an elephant.
Date: May 14, 2023
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla & Rabha, Subhash
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional narrative 'Marikay aro Rangkhop'

Jontri Cherenga tells the traditional narrative 'Marikay aro Rangkhop' about how the clouds and sky were created.
Date: May 14, 2023
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla & Rabha, Subhash
Object Type: Video
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

Conversation introductions

Two speakers give basic introductions of each other.
Date: May 20, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation introductions

Two speakers give basic introductions of each other.
Date: May 20, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about college life

Personal narrative about about a college student's hometown, family and friends, and educational institutions.
Date: May 22, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about college life

This is a personal narrative about college life
Date: May 22, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about hobbies

This is a personal narrative about hobbies.
Date: May 24, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about home life and school

This is a narrative about the speaker's hometown, friends and family, and educational institutions.
Date: May 20, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
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
Oral History Interview with Robert Edward Harris, April 26, 2002 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Edward Harris, April 26, 2002

Interview with Robert Edward Harris, a veteran of World War II, serving in India at the time. Harris answers questions relating to his training, duties, and activities while over in India towards the end of the war; Harrs also answers questions concerning his feelings towards the war and his enemies.
Date: May 13, 2003
Creator: Bottoms, Aaron & Harris, Robert Edward
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Conversation about 1950s Boro culture

This is a description of the cultural life of the Boros in Kokrajhar during the 1950s. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 8, 2009
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about the future plans of the UN Academy, Kokrajhar

This is a conversation about the future plans of the UN Academy, Kokrajhar. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 8, 2009
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library