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Akha notebook 111

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha proverbs, conversations, and word lists of multi-word expressions.
Date: 1978-11-15/1978-11-20
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation about rice cultivation and harvest

Description: Menoka, Monji, and Purnima discuss their paddy fields, chores, dishes they are preparing, and what they plan to buy at the market. The older women describe changes in crops and food over time, expressing concern about the climate, overall crop yield and quality, and the youth's general lack of knowledge of traditional agricultural practices.
Date: October 15, 2022
Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Conversation about tourism in Chhitkul village

Description: Ram Kumar and Bhag Singh Negi debate the pros and cons of tourism in Chhitkul village. Neither of them is directly involved in any business related to tourism, which allows for a frank debate. The recording was made at the Government Senior Secondary School in Chhitkul village, where Kumar is a teacher.
Date: October 15, 2018
Duration: 7 minutes
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of making épob

Description: Aijoni Medok demonstrates the process of making épob, a medicine that is added to apong (rice beer). Leaves of medicinal plants including ríkom, injari, and tiːné anné are dried and pounded in kiːpar (large mortar and pestle). Then, the mixture is formed into balls and dried in the sun. Finally, these balls are squeezed with hands, and the powder is spread in the apong and mixed into the grains used to make apong.
Date: October 15, 2022
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of Rongmei ceremonies

Description: Banbuna Gangmei describes the traditional ceremonies of the Rongmei in the presence of other elders of Ngaselong village in Lakhipur subdivision of Cachar, Assam. He is 60 years old at the time of recording.
Date: November 15, 2013
Duration: 33 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of Rongmei traditional religion

Description: Gaingamlungpou, a native speaker of Rongmei, describes the traditional religion of the Rongmei. He is a resident of Ngaselong village in the Lakhipur subdivision of Cachar district of Assam. He is 67 years old at the time of recording.
Date: November 15, 2013
Duration: 5 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of Saihriem marriage system

Description: Chongpu Chongloi describes the marriage system of the Saihriem as practiced by their traditional forefathers. He is a native speaker of Saihriem from Noxa Tila, Cachar District, Assam, around 85 years old at the time of recording.
Date: August 15, 2012
Duration: 8 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of separating husks from paddy leaves

Description: Purnima Medok demonstrates how to separate the husks from paddy leaves and describes the cultivation process. She says the paddies are sown during the month of ahar (June). After harvesting, the men carry the paddy to the kumsung (a house to keep the harvest). Next, the paddy leaves are separated through the process demonstrated here before it can be dried and later milled. They grow multiple rice varieties including bor zangiya, bora sokua, and ampi. She explains that mixing varieties together… more
Date: October 15, 2022
Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of tea plantation methods, part 1

Description: Bipul Medok describes how his tea plantation was established in 2016. He says the saplings reached maturity after 1.5 years and now produce tea leaves weekly. He cultivates varieties of tea including TS 520 and TS 22 on 12 bighas (~7.5 acres) of land and pays laborers daily.
Date: October 15, 2022
Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of tea plantation methods, part 2

Description: Bipul Medok describes the fertilizers and pesticide methods used on his tea plantation including urea and MOP (potassium chloride). In addition to tea, he grows siris amíng, neem, and black pepper plants.
Date: October 15, 2022
Duration: 2 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of tea plantation methods, part 3

Description: Bipul Medok describes the functions of the siris trees planted between tea plants. They support the black pepper plants' vines, and produce leaves which are are used as an organic fertilizer for the tea plants. He says the wood of the siris tree can also be used as firewood, and may be suitable for making furniture.
Date: October 15, 2022
Duration: 1 minute 05 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Discussion of a writing sample

Description: Discussion of a written sample from an SIL writing workshop. The purpose is to understand the writing system and to learn about grammatical constructions from a variety of speakers.
Date: March 15, 2008
Duration: 14 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Elicitation about possessive pronouns

Description: This is a recording of an elicitation about possessive pronouns demonstrating how possession is expressed in Mankiyali. English sentences are used as prompts. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: November 15, 2019
Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Paramore, Jonathan Charles
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Elicitation of adverbial clauses

Description: This is a recording of an elicitation of adverbial clauses in Mankiyali based on English sentences used as prompts. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: November 15, 2019
Duration: 17 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Paramore, Jonathan Charles
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Elicitation of noun forms

Description: Recording of an elicitation of noun forms based on number and gender to demonstrate the Mankiyali lexical stress patterns in various word forms. In this elicitation, the native speaker, Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher), provides the English word as a prompt and another native speaker, Muhammad Suleman (a 36-year old male teacher) provides the Mankiyali equivalent of that word.
Date: February 15, 2021
Duration: 2 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Aurangzeb
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Elicitation of words for seasons and months

Description: Recording of an elicitation of a word list for seasons and months. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: October 15, 2019
Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Dale, Merrion
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Monologue on festivals

Description: Recording of Bano reciting a cultural account on festivals in the Hunza dialect of Burushaski.
Date: September 15, 2011
Duration: 2 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Monologue on the history of polo

Description: Recording of Wazir Abbas telling the History of Polo in the Nagar dialect. Abbas claims that the modern version of Polo on horses originated in Nagar. He then tells of a battle between the people of Nagar and Hunza.
Date: October 15, 2012
Duration: 7 minutes
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Notes on Tiwa phonology and grammar

Description: Handwritten notes on Tiwa phonology (tone, glottals, syllable structure) and grammar (case, adverbials, compounds, classifiers, negation) with sample sentences and phrases. Includes word lists ranging multiple semantic domains (animals, body parts, natural world, household, agriculture, verbs of motion/ break/ cut/ carry/ burn/ boil, time, and health).
Date: 2000-11-15/2000-12-18
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance at the Naga Seed Sowing festival

Description: Group performance of specially choreographed music and dance mixing different forms of folk dance and songs of ritual occasions and presented in the State Level Lui-Ngai-Ni (Naga Seed Sowing festival) held in Kapaam village in Chandel District, Manipur.
Date: February 15, 2023
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: Khaling, Mosyel Syelsaangthyel
Partner: UNT College of Information
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