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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

Traditional narrative about why monkeys steal human food

This is a traditional narrative about monkeys caring for human babies. The monkeys were angry that the parents did not pay them well enough for taking take of the children, so they stole food from them to get payment.
Date: 1990/2000
Creator: LaPolla, Randy
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guide to Rawang transcriptions and IGT (open access)

Guide to Rawang transcriptions and IGT

This is a guide to writing system and conventions used in transcriptions and analyses through this collection. LaPolla provides the abbreviations for glosses used in the IGT and describes the purposes of each transcription line.
Date: 1990/2005
Creator: LaPolla, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Call Number, Volume 50, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring 1990 (open access)

Call Number, Volume 50, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring 1990

"Call Number, the newsletter of the School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas, is distributed three times a year" (p. 2). The periodical contains information about professors, news in the department, and the school's alumni.
Date: 1990
Creator: University of North Texas. School of Library and Information Sciences.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Call Number, Volume 51, Numbers 1 & 2, Summer 1991 (open access)

Call Number, Volume 51, Numbers 1 & 2, Summer 1991

"Call Number, the newsletter of the School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas, is distributed three times a year" (p. 2). The periodical contains information about professors, news in the department, the school's alumni, and the schedule of classes for the following semester.
Date: 1990
Creator: University of North Texas. School of Library and Information Sciences.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of death rituals (open access)

Description of death rituals

Description of rituals associated with death, including preparing the body, offerings, and the roles of family members in these practices.
Date: 1990~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
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
Akha notebook 136 (open access)

Akha notebook 136

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives about widows, illness, sacrifices, termites, and spirits with partial English glossing.
Date: December 29, 1990
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 135 (open access)

Akha notebook 135

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives about dragons, termites, the village swing, traveling between villages, spirits, and ancestors.
Date: December 1990
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of making wine

This is a description of how wine is made from corn, millet, or buckwheat. First, the utensils are cleaned, and the grain is added to the container. Then it is covered with grass and, after a few days, transferred to a wine container. They describe how the process changes depending on the seasons.
Date: 1990/2000
Creator: LaPolla, Randy
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of making brewer's yeast

This is a description of how to make brewer's yeast. Millet is dried, ground, and mixed with water to form a paste. The paste is molded into chunks for storage. It has to be turned at certain intervals in order to keep well. The yeast is used to make wine.
Date: 1990/2000
Creator: LaPolla, Randy
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library