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Akha notebook 14

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of a traditional song for a dead parent. This song would be sung by the whole village when an adult dies. Notes are based on recordings of a 30 year old man training to be a phima (one who transmits and recites ritual texts). These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork and later checked with a 38 year old speaker whose comments are included in green ink.
Date: 1971
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 15

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of a traditional song for a dead parent. Continued from Notebook 14. This song would be sung by the whole village when an adult dies. Notes are based on recordings of a 30 year old man training to be a phima (one who transmits and recites ritual texts). These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.
Date: 1971
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 16

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives and conversations about Akha spirits, the origin of lightning, and rivers on Akha migration routes. Notes are based on recordings of a phima (one who transmits and recites ritual texts), a phima apprentice, an adult male speaker, and a 4 year old child. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork and later checked with another speaker whose comments are included in green ink.
Date: 1971
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 85

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of descriptions of daily life in an Akha village and conversations about marriage. Continued from Notebook 83.
Date: 1977-12/1978-05
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 87

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about death rituals, Akha funerals, hunting taboos, traditional health practices, and marriage. Continued from Notebook 86.
Date: 1978-02-28/1978-11
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 88

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about traditional health practices and opium and tobacco use and traditional narratives about dragons. Continued from Notebook 87.
Date: 1978-03/1979-12
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 89

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about traditional health practices, funerals, and buying and selling and traditional narratives about tigers. Continued from Notebook 88.
Date: 1978-03-28/1978-11
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 90

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of songs and rituals associated with death and marriage. Continued from Notebook 80.
Date: 1978-04-05/1978-05
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 120

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs, narratives, and ritual recitations about offerings to ancestors, good and bad omens, months, and taboos.
Date: 1982-10-08/1982-10-09
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 123

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives including njí-phà Sjhí ə and conversations with njí-phà Àphiphò with partial English glossing. Includes hand drawn map of the houses and landmarks in Maeby village.
Date: 1982/1983-12-25
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 124

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives recited by njí-phà Sjhí ə in Maeby village about dragons, spirits, rituals, and healing.
Date: 1982/2016
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 132

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about spirits and rituals with partial English glossing, word lists, and grammar notes on tone and syllable structure.
Date: 1988-01/1989-01-17
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 134

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha narratives, word lists, lecture notes, grammar notes, and notes on terms used in English translations with detailed descriptions of rituals, festivals, the Akha calendar, genealogies, traditional clothing, sacrifices, the agricultural cycle, and taboos. Includes excerpts of the 1988 Thai census demographics.
Date: 1986/1991
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 902

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of word lists, Hansson's observations on daily life and customs in the village written in English, and Akha narratives about building a traditional house, aging, and rituals.
Date: 1978-04-17/1978-09-02
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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