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Title:A ritual song
hopmacham_01
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Arjun Rai
Martin Gaenszle
Contributor (speaker):Kamal Bahadur Rai
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2004-11-20
Description:This session was recorded at Mauwabote VDC.This song is an ancient song and certain gifted and knowledgeable people sing it during the marriage ceremony.
This song is performed on the occsion of the Puma marriage ceremony, especially when the Basawari takes place. Basawari is a Puma specific word which means a dialogue. The dialogue takes place between the bridegroom and bride representatives who are called Lekpa and Pheŋma in the Puma language.
Puma and some Bantawa is used in this session.
KBR is popular Puma ŋapoŋ who is the performerof the Khali, nuwagi, Samkha rituals and he is also a story teller.He knows well the myths,legends of Puma.
He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
Dr. Gaenszle is the researcher in charge of ethnography
Mr kBR is one of the well known Puma in his community. He is a ngapong and performs the rituals like Phagu puja, Khaliphenma, rice feeding ceremony etc.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg2
video/x-mpeg1
text/x-shoebox-text
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-2535-3
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Ritual texts; Religious texts
ritual song
fertility
Puma language
Bantawa language
Subject (ISO639):pum
bap
Type:audio
video

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Citation: Arjun Rai; Martin Gaenszle; Kamal Bahadur Rai (speaker). 2004-11-20. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_bap iso639_pum

Inferred Metadata

Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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