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Retelling of the bird and the frog

Recording of Shekarnong Sankhil telling the story of Useen and Uitxokpaa (the bird and the frog)
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Interview about home life and family

Beshot interviews an unidentified young woman (Lamkang Student) about her home life and family.
Date: 2008
Creator: Khullar, Beshot
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about Benglam

Beshot Khullar tells a Benglam Story.
Date: August 26, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of the Raapa Story

Translation of story of Raapa as told by Bunghon Suungnem. In this story, a tiger, angry at being duped by Koreng, eats him. Koreng's sisters vow to marry whoever kills the tiger, and the only one able to do it is Raapa. Jealous, the other men conspire to kill Raapa, but he survives two attempts and tricks them so that they drown. In the end Koreng's sisters kill Raapa.
Date: August 26, 2009
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about The Poor Boy and the Rich Boy Making Snares

The Parable of the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy Making Snares as told by Belun Sankhil
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of a traditional narrative about the squirrel

The traditional narrative Theipaa Paomin [the Squirrel story] as told by Beshot Khullar.
Date: May 16, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of Lamkang proverbs

Recording of proverbs
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Shekarnong Sankhil singing Baak laa -the song of a bat in Lamkang

Recording of Shekarnong Sankhil singing the Baak Laa in Lamkang, a bat song, describing the bat's characteristics.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about Raapa

The traditional narrative Raapa as told by Bunghon Suungnem of Phaidam.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Discussion about traditional trays

Recording of Swamy Tholung Ksen describing traditional trays.
Date: February 2, 2006
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the Rich Boy and the Poor Boy

A traditional story as told by Bunghon Suungnem. In this story, the parents of five sons used up all their wealth purchasing brides and so have nothing to bequeath to them. The father tells them to obey the eldest son and work together to dig up 500 rupees he had buried and distribute it equally. After a few months of digging they are unable to find it, so they ask the eldest son what to do. He has them level the field, draw new boundaries and cultivate it. He assigns the highest plot to the youngest brother, then the next to the next-youngest, and so on. (b) Their neighbors include two lazy men who never work, but live off their wives. One wife tells her husband (the less lazy of the two) to go fishing. Instead of fish, he brings back some gold he finds in the water, and threatens to beat his wife if she does not cook it. She exchanges the gold for food and clothing. The other neighbor and his wife do not prosper, as the husband refuses to work.
Date: August 26, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the Squirrel and Rongnu

Recording by Daniel Tholung of a retelling of the traditional story The Squirrel and Rongnu.
Date: 2008
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of The Origin of the Lamkang

Suungnem Bunghon narrated a monologue/traditional account on the origin of the Lamkang clans. This is a recording of discussion translating the original source file by Rex Khullar. Translation by Daniel Tholung.
Date: August 26, 2009
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of a traditional narrative about the squirrel

Recording of Theipa paomin, a traditional story about the squirrel by Daniel Tholung.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Shekarnong Sankhil reading the John and Jesus discussion in Lamkang

Recording of Shekarnong Sankhil reading the Lamkang Bible story about John and Jesus discussing.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about the Three Sons

The traditional narrative of The Three Sons as told by Bunghon Sankhil of Phaidam.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of Soombeel

Sumshot Khular translates a recording of the story of Soombeel as told by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu of Thamlakhuren village. Soombeel is known for her beauty and wit in the Lamkang traditional folk stories.
Date: August 18, 2000
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of The Story of Sumphaai and Raangleen

Beshot Khullar of Phaaidam village, Chandel, tells the story of Sumphaai leh Raangleen [Sumphaai and Raangleen]. The story was collected by Rengpu Rex Khullar and Harimohon Thounaojam at the NSF-funded storytelling festival in 2009. The narration was transcribed by Reverend Daniel Tholung. This recording is of the translation discussion between Shobhana Chelliah and Daniel Tholung at the UNT in 2010.
Date: August 26, 2009
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Story of Chiktboor leen Mnao kdaa pthii by Khungnong Sankhil

Recording of Chiktboor leen mnaopa kdaa pthii. A story of sending off his brother on Thei Chiktboor tree, narrated by Sankhil Khungnong of Phaaidaam village.
Date: 2007
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of Lamkang proverbs

Recording of Daniel Tholung telling Lamkang proverbs
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Shekarnong Sankhil narrating the Inn Luu - a house warming in Lamkang

Recording of Shekarnong Sankhil narrating the Inn Luu- a house warming in the Lamkang tradition when a new house is built.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Shekarnong Sankhil the naming process of the children in the Lamkang traditions

Recording of Shekarnong Sankhil narrating the naming process in the Lamkang culture, who the names are given after the clan of the mother which is a way to identify the clan to which the mother belongs to.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of Lamkang proverbs

Recording of a translation and discussion of Lamkang proverbs with conversation about the process in Manipuri (Meiteiron).
Date: May 5, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about the Seven Sons

The Story of Seven Sons as told by Angtoi Sankhil. A man is killed by a tiger, and as his six sons go to avenge him, he kills them too one by one. The mother is pregnant with a seventh son, who is able to foretell events while still in the womb. After the child learns how his father died, he goes to confront the tiger and his wife. He avoids the tiger's attempt to kill him, takes back his father's head from the tiger's possession, and vanquishes the tiger.
Date: 2009
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library