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Traditional story about the origin of the division into Terang subclans

Description: This a traditional story about the origin of the division into Terang subclans starting with two Terang brothers, the younger one, Dili and the older one, Rongchetcho (also referred to as Rongchercho); the older one causes a lot of hardship for the younger one, finally, the younger one, Dili, takes a vow to officially form separate subclans (with various societal implications).
Date: February 2, 2009
Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about two twin girls being brought up by tigers

Description: This a traditional story about two twin girls (hingchong musoso) that are born to the human wife of a king, who also has a second wife who is a witch. The witch is jealous and abandons the girls, who are subsequently brought up by tigers. After having grown up, they return to their father’s kingdom and tell their story. The father learns the truth, the witch dies, and the reunited family lives happily ever after.
Date: March 31, 2010
Duration: 10 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Transcription: Traditional story about step-parenthood

Description: This a traditional story about step-parenthood: the mother of two children (with the names Rengso and Onso) dies and the father marries again; the new stepmother is evil and mistreats her step-children, whereupon the father does not know what to do and both abandons his children in the jungle and kills his wife.
Date: unknown
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about step-parenthood

Description: This a traditional story about step-parenthood: the mother of two children (with the names Rengso and Onso) dies and the father marries again; the new stepmother is evil and mistreats her step-children, whereupon the father does not know what to do and both abandons his children in the jungle and kills his wife.
Date: March 31, 2010
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about an elderly couple with a dog

Description: This a traditional story about an elderly couple with a dog; the wife dies and the dog takes the husband to Chom arong (i.e., the village of the dead); the wife does not want to leave, but the husband forces her; upon return to their village, soon somebody else in the village dies, and the wife has to die and go back to Chom arong with the other person.
Date: April 1, 2010
Duration: 12 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Transcription: Monologue on a crying child

Description: This is a monologue on the (traditional) everyday situation of a mother having a baby to take care of while having to perform other chores such as getting firewood and cooking (not considered a true folk story by language consultants).
Date: unknown
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT College of Information

Monologue on a crying child

Description: This is a monologue on the (traditional) everyday situation of a mother having a baby to take care of while having to perform other chores such as getting firewood and cooking (not considered a true folk story by language consultants).
Date: April 1, 2010
Duration: 3 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about a couple, in which the husband tricks his wife in order to get her to give him meat to eat

Description: This is a traditional story about a couple, in which the husband tricks his wife in order to get her to give him meat to eat. He carves a hole into a tree and pretends to be a scary big black bird and tells his wife to feed the big black bird. After the wife has fed the big black bird (i.e., her husband) all of their chickens, the husband himself tells her to look inside the hole the next time around, which she does. Upon recognizing her husband, the wife is angry and tells him she will separat… more
Date: April 1, 2010
Duration: 6 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Transcription: Traditional story about a couple, in which the husband tricks his wife in order to get her to give him meat to eat

Description: This is a traditional story about a couple, in which the husband tricks his wife in order to get her to give him meat to eat. He carves a hole into a tree and pretends to be a scary big black bird and tells his wife to feed the big black bird. After the wife has fed the big black bird (i.e., her husband) all of their chickens, the husband himself tells her to look inside the hole the next time around, which she does. Upon recognizing her husband, the wife is angry and tells him she will separat… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about a common fool character

Description: This a traditional story about a common fool character, who does stupid things (bokolapo); in this story, he wants to go to the market but by switching sides of the basket he is carrying also accidentally switches the direction in which he is walking; he ends up walking back to his own house without realizing it.
Date: unknown
Duration: 3 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT College of Information
open access

Transcription: Traditional story about an orphan who encounters a tiger

Description: This a traditional story about an orphan who encounters a tiger; by using a container with a mirror on top, he manages to convince the tiger that he (the orphan) has caught a large tiger in that container; the tiger is scared and the orphan ends up managing to steal gold from the tigers’ Rongker (= the name of a ceremony in Karbi traditional culture) due to his trick with the mirror container. Chikari Tisso was an active listener during the recording of this text. All of his backchanneling as w… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about an orphan who encounters a tiger

Description: This a traditional story about an orphan who encounters a tiger; by using a container with a mirror on top, he manages to convince the tiger that he (the orphan) has caught a large tiger in that container; the tiger is scared and the orphan ends up managing to steal gold from the tigers’ Rongker (= the name of a ceremony in Karbi traditional culture) due to his trick with the mirror container. Chikari Tisso was an active listener during the recording of this text. All of his backchanneling as w… more
Date: April 10, 2010
Duration: 12 minutes
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the pear story

Description: This is a retelling of an online narration of the Pear Story (Chafe 1980). The speaker was asked to describe what was happening as he was watching the video clip.
Date: December 5, 2012
Duration: 5 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT College of Information
open access

Transcription: Traditional story about the origin of the division into Terang subclans

Description: This a traditional story about the origin of the division into Terang subclans starting with two Terang brothers, the younger one, Dili and the older one, Rongchetcho (also referred to as Rongchercho); the older one causes a lot of hardship for the younger one, finally, the younger one, Dili, takes a vow to officially form separate subclans (with various societal implications)
Date: unknown
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT College of Information
open access

Transcription: Traditional story about two twin girls being brought up by tigers

Description: This a traditional story about two twin girls (hingchong musoso) that are born to the human wife of a king, who also has a second wife who is a witch. The witch is jealous and abandons the girls, who are subsequently brought up by tigers. After having grown up, they return to their father’s kingdom and tell their story. The father learns the truth, the witch dies, and the reunited family lives happily ever after.
Date: unknown
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about two twin girls being brought up by tigers

Description: This a traditional story about two twin girls (hingchong musoso) that are born to the human wife of a king, who also has a second wife who is a witch. The witch is jealous and abandons the girls, who are subsequently brought up by tigers. After having grown up, they return to their father’s kingdom and tell their story. The father learns the truth, the witch dies, and the reunited family lives happily ever after.
Date: March 31, 2010
Duration: 10 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about step-parenthood

Description: This a traditional story about step-parenthood: the mother of two children (with the names Rengso and Onso) dies and the father marries again; the new stepmother is evil and mistreats her step-children, whereupon the father does not know what to do and both abandons his children in the jungle and kills his wife.
Date: March 31, 2010
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT College of Information
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