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Retelling of the Pear Story: Shekarnong

A retelling of the pear story as narrated by Shekarnong Sankhil
Date: December 10, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue about Lamkang heroes

Shekarnong Sankhil discusses a piece in the Souvenir magazine about the heroes of the Lamkang.
Date: December 2, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical:  Field notebook on Lamkang verb conjugation (open access)

Analytical: Field notebook on Lamkang verb conjugation

Handwritten notes on verb conjugations in Lamkang recording fieldwork conducted by Willem de Reuse with Daniel Tholung at the University of North Texas
Date: December 1, 2009
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue about Totlang Festival transcript

Monologue about Totlang Festival

Shekarnong Sankhil explains different aspects of the Totlang Festival, a central celebration in the Lamkang world. He is speaking in English and talking to Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: December 2009
Creator: Sankhil, Shekarnong
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notebook of Lamkang notes NB7 (open access)

Notebook of Lamkang notes NB7

Handwritten notes of verb paradigms in Lamkang by Daniel Tholung when discussing with Willem de Reuse.
Date: December 1, 2009
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical:  Fieldnotes on Lamkang verb paradigms - NB6 (open access)

Analytical: Fieldnotes on Lamkang verb paradigms - NB6

Handwritten notes of verb paradigms in Lamkang by Daniel Tholung when discussing verb paradigms with Willem de Reuse at the University of North Texas.
Date: November 30, 2009
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of Sumshot and Kamla Bhasin

Photograph of [buw kupmom] feeding Kamla Bhasin by Sumshot Khular during the month long program organized by SANGAT in Dhulikhel, Nepal.Kamla Bhasin is an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist.
Date: November 25, 2009
Creator: Sherpa, Mona
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of imperative verbs in frame sentences

A recording of imperative verbs in the frame "Please X" as told by Daniel Tholung and Shekarnong Sankhil. The recording is useful for tone and segment information. Recorded at UNT in 2009.
Date: November 24, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lamkang Hymnal (open access)

Lamkang Hymnal

Lamkang Hyms written in an older orthography. A few of the contributors are listed in the preface.
Date: November 19, 2009
Creator: Lamkang (Ksen) Naga Christian Literature Society
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about the origin of clan names transcript

Conversation about the origin of clan names

Shekarnong Sankhil discusses the origin of clan names with Shobhana Chelliah while visiting UNT.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of traditional burials

Shekarnong Sankhil of Thamlapokpi Village talks to Shobhana Chelliah about how the Lamkang traditionally carried out burials.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monolgue on the Totlang Festival

A discussion of the Totlang Festival by Shekarnong Sankhil.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue about the relationship of the Lamkang to the Naga groups transcript

Monologue about the relationship of the Lamkang to the Naga groups

Shekarnong Sankhil talks about the relationship of the Lamkang to the Naga groups.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Sankhil, Shekarnong
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a harvest song transcript

Performance of a harvest song

At the University of North Texas, Shekarnong Sankhil sings a harvest song.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Sankhil, Shekarnong
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Shekarnong Sankhil narrating the Lamkang traditional jhum cultivation process in Lamkang culture

Recording of the Lamkang Traditional jhum agricultural practices in Lamkang and the varieties of crops and grains that are grown in the Lamkang land.
Date: October 20, 2009
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
List of words in indigenous languages of Manipur (open access)

List of words in indigenous languages of Manipur

Wordlist of word in English and indigenous languages of Manipur. This wordlist during the Workshop for the Development of a Multilingual Glossary of Selected Languages of Manipur in Imphal.
Date: October 2009
Creator: Thounaojam, Harimohon
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mwnse somni hainari rani Rajmata: Gayatri Devi (open access)

Mwnse somni hainari rani Rajmata: Gayatri Devi

A short biography of Gayatri Devi
Date: September 30, 2009
Creator: Boro, Kiran
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about a woman's field of study transcript

Conversation about a woman's field of study

Beshot Khullar of Phaidaam Pantha Phaidaam asks a series of questions to a Lamkang student. Examples of the questions he asks are, 'What do you do?' and 'How big is your family?'
Date: August 27, 2009
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dataset for discussion of naming systems, Part III

Shekarnong Sankhil explains traditional naming practices. This system is based on birth order.
Date: August 27, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Dataset
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

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

Analytical discussion of The Story of Seven Sons

Translation discussion of the Story of Seven Sons as told by Angtoi Sankhil recorded by Rex Khullar and Harimohon Thounaojam.
Date: August 26, 2009
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
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
Analytical discussion of the story "Origin of the Lamkang" with Daniel Tholung and Shekarnong Sankhil transcript

Analytical discussion of the story "Origin of the Lamkang" with Daniel Tholung and Shekarnong Sankhil

A discussion of a recording we have named "The Origin of the Lamkang". Present at the dicussion are David Peterson, Shobhana Chelliah, Sumshot Khular, Daniel Tholung, and Shekarnong Sankhil. The recording illustrates how grammatical information can be gleaned in the process of translating connected text.
Date: August 26, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library