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Call Number, Volume 51, Numbers 1 & 2, Summer 1991

Description: "Call Number, the newsletter of the School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas, is distributed three times a year" (p. 2). The periodical contains information about professors, news in the department, the school's alumni, and the schedule of classes for the following semester.
Date: 1990
Creator: University of North Texas. School of Library and Information Sciences.

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.

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.

Description of making brewer's yeast

Description: This is a description of how to make brewer's yeast. Millet is dried, ground, and mixed with water to form a paste. The paste is molded into chunks for storage. It has to be turned at certain intervals in order to keep well. The yeast is used to make wine.
Date: 1990/2000
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
Creator: LaPolla, Randy

Description of making wine

Description: This is a description of how wine is made from corn, millet, or buckwheat. First, the utensils are cleaned, and the grain is added to the container. Then it is covered with grass and, after a few days, transferred to a wine container. They describe how the process changes depending on the seasons.
Date: 1990/2000
Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds
Creator: LaPolla, Randy
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Guide to Rawang transcriptions and IGT

Description: This is a guide to writing system and conventions used in transcriptions and analyses through this collection. LaPolla provides the abbreviations for glosses used in the IGT and describes the purposes of each transcription line.
Date: 1990/2005
Creator: LaPolla, Randy
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Akha notebook 135

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives about dragons, termites, the village swing, traveling between villages, spirits, and ancestors.
Date: December 1990
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 136

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives about widows, illness, sacrifices, termites, and spirits with partial English glossing.
Date: December 29, 1990
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Achik Grammar

Description: Grammar of Garo language including lessons on the writing system, parts of speech, case, and the structure of noun and verb phrases.
Date: 1991
Creator: Sangma, Samson K.
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Akha notebook 138

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of songs and narratives about spirits and shamans, elicited phrases expressing space and time, and word lists in multiple varieties labelled 'Akha' and 'AkhÉ™.'
Date: January 1991
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Garo Bhasha

Description: Grammar of the Garo language written in Bengali including word lists and example sentences intended to help non-Garos learn the language.
Date: 1991?
Creator: Kar, Pranesh
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Akha notebook 137

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives about silks, hunting, animals, illness, the Akha calendar and festivals, memorizing ritual texts, village administration, and spirits with partial English glossing.
Date: January 24, 1991
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Skichengani Kitap

Description: Book of 30 lessons on the Garo alphabet, handwriting, and arithmetic. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1991
Creator: Busolin, B.; Thomas, Phadar K. A. & Joseph, Umbavu Varghese
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