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Personal narrative about the 2022 Assam floods

Description: Sanjib Laobangdisa describes his experience during the 2022 Assam floods. The speaker is a worker who speaks Bengali, Hindi, Nagamese, and Assamese in addition to Dimasa. He is 46 years old at the time of recording.
Date: October 20, 2022
Duration: 7 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Barman, Animesh
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about the 2022 Assam floods

Description: Sanjib Laobangdisa describes his experience during the 2022 Assam floods. The speaker is a worker who speaks Bengali, Hindi, Nagamese, and Assamese in addition to Dimasa. He is 46 years old at the time of recording.
Date: October 20, 2022
Duration: 7 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Barman, Animesh
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about the 2022 Assam floods

Description: Usha Rani Barman describes her experience during the 2022 Assam floods. The speaker is a retired teacher who speaks Bengali, Hindi, and Assamese in addition to Dimasa. She is 70 years old at the time of recording.
Date: October 20, 2022
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Barman, Animesh
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about the 2022 Assam floods

Description: Usha Rani Barman describes her experience during the 2022 Assam floods. The speaker is a retired teacher who speaks Bengali, Hindi, and Assamese in addition to Dimasa. She is 70 years old at the time of recording.
Date: October 20, 2022
Duration: 7 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Barman, Animesh
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about the 2022 Assam floods

Description: Sadhan Barman describes his experience during the 2022 Assam floods. The speaker is a worker who speaks Bengali, Hindi, Manipuri, English, and Assamese in addition to Dimasa. He is 51 years old at the time of recording.
Date: October 20, 2022
Duration: 9 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Barman, Animesh
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about the 2022 Assam floods

Description: Sadhan Barman describes his experience during the 2022 Assam floods. The speaker is a worker who speaks Bengali, Hindi, Manipuri, English, and Assamese in addition to Dimasa. He is 51 years old at the time of recording.
Date: October 20, 2022
Duration: 9 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Barman, Animesh
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description and performance of a traditional instrument

Description: Thomas Morang describes and performs the traditional instrument dumpag while attending the Dírbí Kébang in Telam village. He is from Silapathar village, Dhemaji, and is wearing traditional clothing for men including mibu galug, gonro ugon, tongani dumér, and dogné on his neck. He shows the léréli music in the instrument.
Date: October 19, 2022
Duration: 46 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description and performance of a traditional instrument

Description: Birkhudhor Koktak describes and performs the traditional instrument dérki tapum while attending the Dírbí Kébang in Telam village as the leader of the Songkid Opé musical group. The four holes are called uw; the pipe is called dorbum. He performs a short song with lyrics "pépid piːd piːd, pépid péttangaː, ngokké aːmém doyoka, moːtep dengkangka" (dear bird...do not eat my paddy...please fly far away.) He is from Poloma village in Raisapori, Dhemaji.
Date: October 19, 2022
Duration: 2 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description and performance of a traditional instrument

Description: Birason Doley describes and performs the traditional instrument kétpo tapum while attending the Dírbí Kébang in Telam village. He performs a niːtom and a kaban. He is the current Vice President of the Moridhal region in Dhemaji, Assam (originally from Hatipora, Dhemaji). He says he has played the kétpo tapum on the radio and performed with numerous artists.
Date: October 19, 2022
Duration: 3 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description and performance of a traditional instrument

Description: Prodip Kumbang describes and performs the traditional instrument éjuk tapum while attending the Dírbí Kébang in Telam village. He is from Sikari, Gali Borbari, Dhemaji, and is the current president of the Mising Cultural Association of Jonai region, Dhemaji, Assam. He says the éjuk tapum is of three types, depending on the number of holes in the instrument. If the instrument has one hole, it is called tumbo; pumsu for two; and lísíg for three. Pumsu is the current logo of the Mising Cultural As… more
Date: October 19, 2022
Duration: 3 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of traditional clothing and jewelry

Description: Ésar Doley describes her traditional clothing and jewelry worn while attending the Dírbí Kébang in Telam village, Dhemaji, Assam. She is wearing a wrap called gene ege gasor. On her neck, she is wearing dogné. She has adorned her wrists and hair with lakpun and dokpun. She says her group performed a traditional dance called selloya at the event.
Date: October 19, 2022
Duration: 24 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of the traditional dance 'Éjuk soːnam'

Description: Group performance of the traditional dance 'Éjuk soːnam' at the Dírbí Kébang in Telam village. The dance is accompanied by traditional instruments, most notably éjuk tapum, traditionally made from bottle gourds and bamboo.
Date: October 19, 2022
Duration: 5 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of the traditional dance 'Éjuk soːnam'

Description: Group performance of the traditional dance 'Éjuk soːnam' at the Dírbí Kébang in Telam village. The dance is accompanied by traditional instruments, most notably éjuk tapum, traditionally made from bottle gourds and bamboo.
Date: October 19, 2022
Duration: 5 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of the traditional dance 'Sélloya'

Description: Group performance of the traditional dance 'Sélloya' at the Dírbí Kébang in Telam village depicting the Mising migration from the hills to the plains. The dance is accompanied by traditional instruments and singing where the women ask where to go and the men reply.
Date: October 19, 2022
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of the traditional dance 'Sélloya'

Description: Group performance of the traditional dance 'Sélloya' at the Dírbí Kébang in Telam village depicting the Mising migration from the hills to the plains. The dance is accompanied by traditional instruments and singing where the women ask where to go and the men reply.
Date: October 19, 2022
Duration: 8 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of the traditional song 'Téréré', part 1

Description: Group performance of the traditional song 'Téréré' at the Dírbí Kébang in Telam village typically sung during marriage ceremonies. When a girl reaches the age of puberty and is ready to get married, Mising women gather in groups to sing this song.
Date: October 19, 2022
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Doley, Normoda
Partner: UNT College of Information
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