Degree Department

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
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
Lukni Sea Nama Katta aro Talatanirang (open access)

Lukni Sea Nama Katta aro Talatanirang

Book about Christian beliefs referencing Bible excerpts and maps of Palestine.
Date: 1993
Creator: Buccieri, Anthony
Object Type: Book
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
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
Skichengani Kitap (open access)

Skichengani Kitap

Book of 30 lessons on the Garo alphabet, handwriting, and arithmetic. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1991
Creator: Busolin, B.; Thomas, Phadar K. A. & Joseph, Umbavu Varghese
Object Type: Book
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
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
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
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 137 (open access)

Akha notebook 137

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives about silks, hunting, animals, illness, the Akha calendar and festivals, memorizing ritual texts, village administration, and spirits with partial English glossing.
Date: January 24, 1991
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 138 (open access)

Akha notebook 138

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of songs and narratives about spirits and shamans, elicited phrases expressing space and time, and word lists in multiple varieties labelled 'Akha' and 'Akhə.'
Date: January 1991
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
A comparison of Gåhky and Akha (open access)

A comparison of Gåhky and Akha

Pre-print of a conference paper comparing Gåhky and Akha with corrections on earlier work. Includes handwritten notes, examples, and word lists comparing modern forms with related languages.
Date: 1991~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A comparison of Ghɔky and Akha (open access)

A comparison of Ghɔky and Akha

Pre-print of a conference paper comparing Ghɔky and Akha including word lists comparing modern forms and syllables.
Date: 1991/2004~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
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
Hani funeral text (open access)

Hani funeral text

Typed transcription of a Hani funeral ritual narrative describing the underworld and the relationships between humans and the natural world.
Date: 1992
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
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
Object-Verb in Akha: The ABB Structure (open access)

Object-Verb in Akha: The ABB Structure

Pre-print manuscript about how object-verb constructions are formed in Akha, including examples.
Date: 1991~/2004~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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
A preliminary comparison of Hani and Akha funeral texts: Report on work in progress (open access)

A preliminary comparison of Hani and Akha funeral texts: Report on work in progress

Pre-print of a manuscript comparing Hani and Akha funeral texts, including excerpts.
Date: 1993/1997~
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
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