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Conversation about a dream

Description: Recording of family members talking informally about dreams, sleeping, and visiting. Thangpuii is the main speaker, but she is interrupted by the rest of the family making small talk and offering to help with her swollen joints. Visitors and family members are talking in the background.
Date: January 1990
Duration: 18 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Rema, C. L.
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Conversation about Darphawka

Description: Recording of a story about a historical figure named Darphawka. During the story, Thangi interjects to ask questions. Conversations like this will be valuable for Mizo language teachers to give their students a model for naturalistic speech because they do not follow the prescriptive rules.
Date: 1990~
Duration: 31 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Rema, C. L.
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Elicitation of common words

Description: Elicitation of common nouns including body parts, family members, household items, clothing, and the natural world, and question words. Kushal Singh helps translate. Recorded in the Altodi Raji hamlet.
Date: November 16, 1998
Duration: 2 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
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Field notes from elicitations

Description: Field notes from elicitations of common nouns (body parts, family members, colors, natural objects) and sentence structure. Sentence examples demonstrate negation, interrogatives, conditionals, and pronouns in Raji.
Date: 1998/2004
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
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In the Shadow of the Tiger

Description: Documentary about life in the villages surrounding the Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal (Shiltong, South Paro, North Paro, Rajabathkava, and Bothia villages). Villagers and government officials describe a project by the World Bank to create wildlife reserves for endangered species, specifically the Bengal tiger. Villagers struggle to grow enough food, and elephants trample their fields. They were told to resettle elsewhere, but refused to leave their ancestral lands. Selling firewood is a main… more
Date: 1998
Duration: 53 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Grundström, Veena & Karlsson, Beppe
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Kom Rem Thut

Description: This is a collection of texts in Kom including folklore and histories of relation between Kom and groups in surrounding areas such as Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tripura.
Date: March 21, 1992
Creator: Kom, K. Shonjachung
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Performance of Lai Haraoba pena ballads and dance

Description: Video of a festival featuring dance and pena performances. Elders are shown assembling the pena. Pena cholom is where a group of pena balladeers play together organized by ranks where the highest ranking balladeer plays first, and so on. The structure and components of the pena are described. Other instruments similar to the pena are shown, like tingteila of the Tangkhuls, and Laa of Kabui (Rongmei). The final segment includes a voice-over in English describing spirituality and symbolism of pen… more
Date: 1999
Duration: 2 hours 19 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Audio Visual Research Centre
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Rungsari Pratima Kacharini sungdo jiu jarimin

Description: This is a souvenir of late Pratima Kachari including messages from Mr. Maheswar Basumatary, Secretary of All Bodo Students' Union and Mrs. Supriya Rani Brahma, President of All Bodo Women's Welfare Federation, a biographical sketch, and a poem about Pratima Kachari written by Kartik, her husband.
Date: May 14, 1995
Creator: Boro, Kiran
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