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Akha notebook 908 (open access)

Akha notebook 908

Handwritten notes and English translations of Akha songs and narratives about animals, opium, love, nature, and spirits originally transcribed in Akha notebooks 18-87.
Date: March 21, 1999
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 910 (open access)

Akha notebook 910

Handwritten notes and English translations of songs and narratives originally transcribed in Akha notebooks 87 and 88 and an untranslated ritual narrative.
Date: March 12, 1999
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
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
Pidan katha khakai (open access)

Pidan katha khakai

Translation of the New Testament books of the Bible into Rabha in roman script, including a table of contents and preface.
Date: 1999
Creator: Jose, U. V.
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

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
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

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
Notes on KokBorok phonology and word lists (open access)

Notes on KokBorok phonology and word lists

Handwritten notes on KokBorok phonology focusing on tone and phonotactics, with phoneme inventory and comparisons to Garo. Includes word lists ranging multiple semantic domains (kinship terms, numerals, animals, agriculture, natural world, colors, physical descriptors, verbs of motion, verbs of perception, body parts, interrogatives, and time).
Date: January 1997
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Orally transmitted texts of the minorities in East and Southeast Asia: Suggestions for research across borders (open access)

Orally transmitted texts of the minorities in East and Southeast Asia: Suggestions for research across borders

Pre-print manuscript about the value of orally transmitted texts, including excerpts of Akha texts translated into English.
Date: 1997/2004~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reduplication in Akha (open access)

Reduplication in Akha

Partial conference handout presenting examples of reduplication in Akha.
Date: 1997/2004~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
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

Lamkang in Laa

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Book of Christian hymns in Lamkang.
Date: April 1996
Creator: Darting, Db. Dillipa
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aesopni Golporang (open access)

Aesopni Golporang

Book of Aesop's Fables in Garo.
Date: 1996
Creator: Holbrook, L. M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arcni Rongtalgipa Joan (open access)

Arcni Rongtalgipa Joan

Illustrated story of Joan of Arc.
Date: 1996
Creator: Woodgate, M. V.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Interplay Between the Verb Particle 'ə' and the Sentence Particles in Akha (open access)

The Interplay Between the Verb Particle 'ə' and the Sentence Particles in Akha

Pre-print of a manuscript on Akha particles including paradigms and conversational examples.
Date: 1996~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
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
Achikkuni Maambi (open access)

Achikkuni Maambi

Account of the history and classification of the Garo language which surveys existing material in Garo and compares Garo grammar and vocabulary with related languages (Tibetan, Kachari, Rabha, Assamese, etc.). Includes partial handwritten English translations.
Date: 1995
Creator: Sangma, Milton S.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akim (open access)

Akim

Play with 9 acts written in Garo.
Date: 1995
Creator: Momin, Barthon G.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maniani Bidik (open access)

Maniani Bidik

Book about Garo culture and poetry.
Date: 1995
Creator: Sangma, Mihir N.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Rabha field work and word lists (open access)

Notes on Rabha field work and word lists

Handwritten and typed notes on Rabha phonology with phoneme inventory and brief summary of Burling's work with Rabha consultants. Includes word lists in multiple semantic domains (natural world, body parts, animals, kinship terms, insects, physical descriptors) and notes on regional variation, Assamese influence, and comparisons to Garo, Khasi, Atong, Koch, and KokBorok.
Date: [1995..2005]
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rongtalgipa Joseph (open access)

Rongtalgipa Joseph

Book about Christian beliefs referencing Bible excerpts.
Date: 1995
Creator: Mankin, Thomas
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ulysses Troy Songjinmako Rimgopgipa (open access)

Ulysses Troy Songjinmako Rimgopgipa

Book about Greek mythology translated into Garo.
Date: 1995
Creator: Sangma, Bemfield K.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library