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The art of pottery making

Description: The Changki womenfolk were the first in the Ao region to engage in earthen pottery making. In an age of headhunting, their skill was a boon, as they could be on good terms with their enemies. Legend says that all the clans of the Ao community used the earthen pots made by the Changkians to cook, so they all had to maintain a friendly relationship with our ancestors, which allowed them to thrive in peace. Our forefathers had to face untold challenges in those days, especially in fire crises. Fi… more
Date: August 15, 2024
Duration: 3 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Lendiben Ningdangri
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Ayir ka sungdong den meimteba

Description: The story "Ayir ka sungdong den meimteba" is an Ao Folk tale about a girl who falls deeply in love with a boy who is actually a tree. He transforms into a human (male) only at night and visits the girl every night in the tsüke (a place where unmarried women sleep). In the story, the boy was handsome and had an appearance which could make him stand out in the crowd; he was tall and muscular. Eventually, the girl got attracted to his charms and fell deeply in love with him. The boy only appeared … more
Date: August 15, 2024
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Tiajungla
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Creation of Sumi Ighanumi Village

Description: In the ancient times, our ancestors did not have written stories; instead, they preserved and shared their tales through oral tradition. This is the story of how the village of present-day ""Ighanumi"" was created. From the beginning, our forefathers has passed on the story till today that Ashu Igha's father, HOLO, and his mother, HILI, were also from the Burma lineage. There were six brothers, where Ashu Igha was the third eldest when he heard about his brothers leaving home in order to make a… more
Date: August 15, 2024
Duration: 4 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Nitoholi Jimo
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Do·po debaa

Description: "Once upon a time, a mother bird named Apinga and her young ones were perched on a tree branch, preening their feathers and grooming themselves. Suddenly, an owl landed on the same tree and gazed admiringly at Apinga's beautiful and adorable children. The owl asked Apinga how she was able to give birth to such lovely babies, as her offspring were born with big, bulging eyes and large foreheads. Apinga responded by asking who forbade the owl from giving birth properly. Then the owl promised Apin… more
Date: August 15, 2024
Duration: 2 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Pangkame D Sangma
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Folktale of Kongliang

Description: "A long time ago, there lived a family with two daughters. One day, the parents went to the fields, leaving the two girls at home. (The time of year is understood to be around end July to early August.) ""Tenü (younger sister), mother and father have gone to the fields, so today I will clean the rice and prepare the pigs’ food. You go to fetch the water and firewood”, the older sister told her younger sister. The younger sister readily agreed and went to collect firewood. She came laden with th… more
Date: August 15, 2024
Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Martha Longkumer
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Garo Folktale-Peru Am·pak Kika: A Tale of Procrastination

Description: "On a cold winter night, a fox, unable to withstand the freezing temperatures, lamented his situation. In a moment of resolve, he decided that at dawn, he would craft a blanket from tree bark to keep himself warm. Comforted by this plan, he passed the night. However, when the sun rose, the warmth of the day caused him to forget his intentions, and he spent the day in carefree idleness. As evening fell and the cold returned, the fox remembered his earlier resolve and regretted not having prepare… more
Date: August 15, 2024
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: Pangkame D Sangma
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Hand Weaving

Description: The traditional weaving techniques of Nagaland (one of the northeastern states of India) include using a back strap loom, also known as a loin loom or pit loom, to weave textiles from handspun cotton, eri silk, nettle, and bark fibers. The loin loom is a portable bamboo loom with a backstrap and six bamboo poles that act as a warp beam. It's fastened to a wall with rope loops that are spaced out based on the width of the cloth being woven. The backstrap loom is a favorite among weavers because … more
Date: August 15, 2024
Duration: 40 seconds
Creator: Alvika A. Zhimomi
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The Little Girl Who Turned into a Bird

Description: This is a story about a mother and her little daughter who go to a paddy field to work. While the mother toils away, the little girl waits patiently. As time passes, she gets hungry. She approaches her mother and asks her to come and eat. However, the mother gently refuses her, saying, 'Wait, let me work a little more'. The girl goes to her mother for the second time, saying she's hungry, the mother denies it again for the second time. The third time, the little girl asks her mother for her sha… more
Date: August 15, 2024
Duration: 1 minute 22 seconds
Creator: Nikule Kapfo
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Partner: UNT College of Information

The story of three brothers

Description: Once upon a time, there were three brothers named Chakhesang, Angami, and Sumi. While their parents were still alive, the elder brothers got married and recieved the share of their family property. However, the youngest brother, who was not married yet, did not recieve his portion. So, to ensure he was provided for, their father gave him a piece of land with huge flat rocks where the rice were grown. On that particular rock, if two buckets of rice were kept to dry, when they collected them, the… more
Date: August 15, 2024
Duration: 2 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Likali Khujumi
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Development of Novel Approaches to Earth-abundant Methane Catalysis

Description: Data management plan for the grant "Development of Novel Approaches to Earth-abundant Methane Catalysis." Research on catalytic cycles for C–H activation and functionalization of light alkanes based on the CMD (concerted metalation deprotonation) mechanism will be modeled for Earth-abundant metal dicarboxylates and related complexes. The impact of inner and outer coordination sphere effects upon catalytic cycles for light alkane functionalization will be assessed using computational chemistry t… more
Date: 2021-08-15/2024-08-14
Creator: Cundari, Thomas R., 1964-
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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sCrop: A Novel Device for Sustainable Automatic Disease Prediction, Crop Selection, and Irrigation in Internet-of-Agro-Things for Smart Agriculture

Description: Accepted Manuscript version of an article introducing the innovative idea of the Internet-of-Agro-Things (IoAT) with an explanation of the automatic detection of plant disease for the development of Agriculture Cyber-Physical System (ACPS). An accuracy of 99.24% is achieved by the proposed plant disease prediction framework.
Date: August 15, 2021
Creator: Udutalapally, Venkanna; Mohanty, Saraju P.; Pallagani, Vishal & Khandelwal, Vedant
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Partner: UNT College of Engineering

[Two children sitting on a stone bench by two Gothic-style windows]

Description: Photograph of two children wearing face masks, shorts, t-shirts, and sneakers sitting on a stone bench on the left-hand side of the image. An empty bench faces the two children on the opposite side. Two large Gothic-style clerestory stone windows with a cut-out trefoil design on top is situated in the middle of the small room with the two benches. Natural light from outside floods the space.
Date: August 15, 2021
Creator: Waterman, Alex
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Firearms of the Texas Rangers: From the Frontier Era to the Modern Age

Description: From their founding in the 1820s up to the modern age, the Texas Rangers have shown the ability to adapt and survive. Part of that survival depended on their use of firearms. The evolving technology of these weapons often determined the effectiveness of these early day Rangers. John Coffee “Jack” Hays and Samuel Walker would leave their mark on the Rangers by incorporating new technology which allowed them to alter tactics when confronting their adversaries. The Frontier Battalion was created a… more
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Date: August 15, 2020
Creator: Dukes, Doug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press
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From the Archives: Duke Ellington Collections at the UNT Music Library

Description: Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode describes five major collections of materials related to Duke Ellington, including multiple sound recordings which are unreleased according to available discographical information: Ellington at the Paramount Theater, April 30, 1947; Ellington on WWDC radio, April 21, 1946; Ellington interviewed by Willis Conover, March 27, 1948; Ellington interviewed by Willis Conover, September… more
Date: August 15, 2019
Duration: 35 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Metadata Record Graphs for Six Collections from the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

Description: Paper providing background and the entire processed, intermediary data used for network analysis research regarding metadata from the UNT Digital Collections. It includes background and contextual information to reuse the data and provides complete datasets for metadata in six selected collections: the College of Music Recordings, Technical Report Archive and Image Library, the Texas Patents Collection, Texas State Publications, UNT Theses and Dissertations, and the University Photography Coll… more
Date: August 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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