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Akha notebook 61

Description: Handwritten notes and transcription of a traditional narrative about Mɔ Hỳ and Mɔ Njí. Additional notes were added in 1987.
Date: April 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 38

Description: Handwritten notes and transcription of a traditional narrative. These notes were taken during sessions with an Akha consultant in Copenhagen.
Date: 1974
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Akha notebook 37

Description: Handwritten notes and transcription of a traditional narrative. These notes were taken during sessions with an Akha consultant in Copenhagen.
Date: 1974
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about The Poor Boy and the Rich Boy

Description: Sumshot Khular of Thamlakhuren tells the story of The Poor Boy and the Rich Boy, originally told and written by Margret Leivon during the LLEC Mantri Pantha workshop in Manipur. The story is about a poor boy and a rich boy who went to set a trap. The poor boy's trap caught a deer and the rich boy got nothing, but he put the deer in his trap and tried to cheat the poor boy.
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Date: 2017
Duration: 30 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Lorenzen, Jane
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Reading of the Escape of the Younger Brother

Description: Rex Khullar reads a connected text "Escape of the Younger Brother." This is a sample text provided in the sketch on Lamkang in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India. The text was later re-recorded with corrections and commentary by Shekarnong Sankhil.
Date: May 2009
Duration: 5 minutes
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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Traditional story about Sumphaai and Rangleen, Part 1

Description: Sumphai leh Rangleng [Sumphai and Rangleng] as told by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu of of Thamlakhuren, Part 1. Sumphai was a hardworking sister of Rangleng, but she was despised by the lazy wife of Rangleng, who nagged her husband into selling her off so that they could be alone. As the husband went to sell Sumphai, while they spent the night in a riverbank, the sister Sumphai had a dream in which their mother appeared. The mother was talking to the brother and asking him what on earth he was doin… more
Date: August 18, 2000
Duration: 8 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
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Traditional narrative about The Bad Woman and Good Woman

Description: Skinyernu and Penpenjur [The Bad Woman and Good Woman] as told by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu. In this story, a lady who was very good and industrious, Penpenjur, was killed by a bad woman, Skinyernu. Later Skinyernu played the role of the wife of Penpenjur, whom she had killed. However, the first wife, Penpenjur, was reborn to fight with the bad woman. The good woman won the fight, but the good woman killed again with the poison from the banana leaf that was used to wrap a food pack, a banana … more
Date: 2000
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Partner: UNT College of Information
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