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Letter to a family member

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling. Teenage cousins are having informal conversation and joking.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 3 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling. Other family members are talking in the background.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member: jokes

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling which includes jokes in the style of stories. One story is about a man selling his rice on the black market to secretly get money and buy alcohol, even though he lives by himself and doesn't need to hide his drinking from anybody.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Lalawia
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of Lalruanga leh Keichala

Description: Recording a retelling of Lalruanga and Keichala, a traditional narrative about a being that is a tiger (keimi) that can take on human form. This story has several episodes involving magic and mythology.
Date: September 18, 1985
Duration: 29 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of Liandova and His Brother

Description: Recording of a traditional story about two brothers who are both poor orphans. The story describes their struggles, and how they never had enough food to eat. Later on, they get lucky by finding the insides of a python that the villagers had skinned and cut up. The brothers take the insides to eat, but find valuable gems inside and become rich. The moral of the story is that you should never look down on the poor and the orphans.
Date: September 18, 1985
Duration: 30 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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