This is a story of an ungrateful boy who leaves his parents in search of a job. He returns home with his friend one day and introduces his mother as a working woman; the mother cries a lot, the boy gets back to job and dies. Dialect: Sanzari

This is a story of a newly married daughter-in-law who was fortunate to become rich out of whatever activity she undertakes. Dialect: Sanzari

This is a traditional story of a daughter and sparrow birds. The daughter tries to send away the birds from the rice field by singing a song, but hears an absurd voice. She fell in love with a boy disguised as a snake, got married, and became rich. Seeing this, a neighbor followed the same, got her daughter married to a real snake, but was eaten up. Dialect: Sanzari

This is a traditional story of an old man who went to get some sesame from a nearby market but forgot the Assamese word of it on the way. In the market, his friend helped him to get sesame. He also picked up a mirror but left it on the way while resting. A boy got it and used for the first time, took his own face to be his deceased father's. Always looked in the mirror, remembered his father more and more, became indifferent to his wife. The wife suspected that he always looked another woman in the mirror, quarrel begins. An old woman showed her that what they saw in the mirror were not other man or woman, but their own images. Dialect: Sanzari

Final report for the Z39.50 interoperability testbed project, phase 2.

This paper was part of a series by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative 'Click! Photography Changes Everything'. This paper discusses family photographs and how sometimes seemingly unremarkable snapshots can be truly remarkable.