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Letter to a family member

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member about how the nieces and children in the family are growing up.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Liandingi
Partner: UNT College of Information

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
Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 9 minutes 01 second
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 2 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member: work, school

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling. This part includes updates on how difficult work and school are at the time.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member: greetings

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling. This part features the greetings and opening of the recorded letter.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 5 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
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
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of a song by a Mizo child

Description: Recording of a Mizo child, age 6, beating on drum and singing.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 2 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Lalruali
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
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
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of the song "Bless this House"

Description: Recording of the hymn "Bless this house" (originally written in English) sung in Mizo.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 2 minutes 03 seconds
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of a song about old Mizo life

Description: Recording of a song performed by a group of family members about old Mizo village life. The song was written by Thangi's grandfather with parts for guitar and drum.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Performance of the song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

Description: Recording of the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star first in Mizo, then in English.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 1 minute 03 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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