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Tape 13 Side B

Description: Akha songs and narratives. 0-20 ásɔ̀q: mͻ-hỳhͻ ə́ mɔ-njí
Date: April 1977
Duration: 20 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 12 Side A

Description: Akha songs and narratives. 0-12 ásɔ̀q: recitations; 12-[end] ásɔ̀q: mͻ-hỳhͻ ə́ mɔ-njí (contd on 13b)
Date: April 6, 1977
Duration: 30 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 12 Side B

Description: Akha songs and narratives. 0-12 mì-dɔq: story; 12-[end] ásɔ̀q: àdi li
Date: April 6, 1977
Duration: 19 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 13 Side A

Description: Akha songs and narratives. 0-5 mɔ́-tsche: On opium; 5-10 í-sha: plays jew's harp; 10-18 í-sha: plays iron jew's harp; 18-end í-sha: song
Date: April 18, 1977
Duration: 31 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 48 Side A

Description: Akha songs and narratives. 0-20 Ábɔ́koq: about himself; 20-42 Ábɔ́koq: tiger story; 42-56 Ábɔ́koq: vampire story. 16/4-78. 56-[end] Mɔ́-lɛq: ájɛ̀ tjha ə̀
Date: April 16, 1978
Duration: 31 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 48 Side B

Description: Akha songs and narratives. Continued from Side A. 0-20 Ábɔ́koq: about himself; 20-42 Ábɔ́koq: tiger story; 42-56 Ábɔ́koq: vampire story. 16/4-78. 56-[end] Mɔ́-lɛq: ájɛ̀ tjha ə̀
Date: April 16, 1978
Duration: 31 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 49 Side A

Description: Akha songs and narratives. 0-15 Ábɔ́koq: Raft on river 17/4-78; 15-40 Àbɔ́qɔ: length of life; 40-51 Àbɔ́qɔ: Ancestor basket; 51-65 On earthquakes; 65-[end] On creation
Date: April 17, 1978
Duration: 32 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 49 Side B

Description: Akha songs and narratives.Continued from Side A. 0-10 On creation; 10-19 Àbɔ́qɔ: àma ma tàq; 19-end Àbɔ́qɔ: mɔ hỳhɔ́ə mɔ njí. 18/4-1978
Date: 1978-04-17/1978-04-18
Duration: 31 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 50 Side A

Description: Akha songs and narratives. 0-20 Àbɔ́qɔ: djö djö ə̀ qà-kɔq. 18/4-78. 20-52 Àbɔ́qɔ: àphö̀ lɔ́ ə 21/4-78
Date: 1978-04-18/1978-04-21
Duration: 31 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 50 Side B

Description: Akha songs and narratives. 0-30 nɛ̀q khə̀ khə̀ ə. 19/4-78. 30-51 Ábɔ́: Rec. Getting old 21/4-78
Date: 1978-04-18/1978-04-21
Duration: 31 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 51 Side A

Description: Akha songs and narratives. 0-[end] Àbɔ́qɔ: nɛ̀q khə̀ khə̀ ə 21/4-78
Date: April 21, 1978
Duration: 31 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 51 Side B

Description: Akha songs and narratives. Continued from Side A. 0-[end] Àbɔ́qɔ: nɛ̀q khə̀ khə̀ ə 21/4-78
Date: April 21, 1978
Duration: 31 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 52 Side A

Description: Akha songs and narratives. 0-42 Àbɔ́qɔ 22/4-78; 42-[end] Mì-jàq: mɔ-hỳhɔə́ mɔ-njí 29/4-78
Date: 1978-04-22/1978-04-29
Duration: 31 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 52 Side B

Description: Akha songs and narratives. Continued from Side A. Mì-jàq: màŋ xhö̀ ə qà-kɔq
Date: April 29, 1978
Duration: 31 minutes
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 53 Side A

Description: Akha songs and narratives. Continued from Tape 52. 0-8 Mì-jàq: màŋ xhö̀ ə qà-kɔq. qɔ: nà gaq thjaŋ, qɔ. 11/5-78
Date: 1978-04-29/1978-05-11
Duration: 31 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Monologue on a crying child

Description: This is a monologue on the (traditional) everyday situation of a mother having a baby to take care of while having to perform other chores such as getting firewood and cooking (not considered a true folk story by language consultants).
Date: April 1, 2010
Duration: 3 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional narrative about animal antics

Description: This a traditional story about a chain reaction of events that sets off when a frog blocks the road and sits down on an ant that in turn bites the frog. From there on, one animal suffers from being disturbed or hurt by another animal, and as a consequence accidentally disturbs or hurts another animal, and so on: the ant disturbs the frog, the frog disturbs the squirrel, the squirrel disturbs the pig, the pig disturbs the bird, the bird disturbs the elephant, the elephant kicks a rock, which th… more
Date: April 1, 2010
Duration: 5 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about a couple, in which the husband tricks his wife in order to get her to give him meat to eat

Description: This is a traditional story about a couple, in which the husband tricks his wife in order to get her to give him meat to eat. He carves a hole into a tree and pretends to be a scary big black bird and tells his wife to feed the big black bird. After the wife has fed the big black bird (i.e., her husband) all of their chickens, the husband himself tells her to look inside the hole the next time around, which she does. Upon recognizing her husband, the wife is angry and tells him she will separat… more
Date: April 1, 2010
Duration: 6 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about an elderly couple with a dog

Description: This a traditional story about an elderly couple with a dog; the wife dies and the dog takes the husband to Chom arong (i.e., the village of the dead); the wife does not want to leave, but the husband forces her; upon return to their village, soon somebody else in the village dies, and the wife has to die and go back to Chom arong with the other person.
Date: April 1, 2010
Duration: 12 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of cleaning and washing

Description: This is a description of the important status of cleanliness in Karbi culture.
Date: April 2, 2010
Duration: 3 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of cooking alkaline food

Description: This is a description of cooking alkaline food by burning jhum fields and using the ashes.
Date: April 2, 2010
Duration: 3 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about a common fool character

Description: This a traditional story about a common fool character, who does stupid things (bokolapo); in this story, he wants to go to the market but by switching sides of the basket he is carrying also accidentally switches the direction in which he is walking; he ends up walking back to his own house without realizing it.
Date: April 2, 2010
Duration: 3 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about an orphan who encounters a tiger

Description: This a traditional story about an orphan who encounters a tiger; by using a container with a mirror on top, he manages to convince the tiger that he (the orphan) has caught a large tiger in that container; the tiger is scared and the orphan ends up managing to steal gold from the tigers’ Rongker (= the name of a ceremony in Karbi traditional culture) due to his trick with the mirror container. Chikari Tisso was an active listener during the recording of this text. All of his backchanneling as w… more
Date: April 10, 2010
Duration: 12 minutes
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information
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