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Title:Puma Phagu festival song
pum_song_02
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti Languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Arjun Rai
Contributor (singer):Bali Maya Rai
Dhan Kumari Rai
Laxmi Maya Rai
Ram Laxmi Rai
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2004-06-08
Description:This session was recorded at Beltar VDC, Udayapur district. The Puma people in the Phagu festival meet together and sing this kind of song. This is a romantic song.
The aim of the project is to provide a rich linguistic and ethnographic documentation of two highly endangered but almost totally undcumented languages in eastern Nepal, Chintang and Puma. These two languages belong to the Kiranti family of Tibeto-Burman. Chintang is spoken by the Chintang Rai in Chintang Village Development Committee (VDC) of Dhankuta district. Puma is spoken by the Puma Rai in Diplung, Mauwabote and Pauwasera VDCs, to the south of Khotang bazar in Khotang district. Both these districts are situated in the eastern part of the country.http://www.cpdp.uzh.ch
The song gives the message to the Puma community that they should preserve the cultural festivals. The ritual and cultural performers are highly respected in this song. The importance of Phagu and way of celebrating this Phagu festival is also mentioned in this song.
Puma and Bantawa languages are used in this song.
BMR, LMR, DKR, RLR are settlers of Beltar VDC. They are good singers who volunteered to present this song for our documentation.
BMR is the resident of Beltar VDC. She is known as social worker in her society. She is a good singer.
DKR lives at Beltar VDC. She migrated from Devisthan VDC. She is very interested woman for the Puma culture and the language.
LMR is the resident of Beltar VDC. She migrated from Devisthan VDC fifteen years ago. She is house wife.
He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
RLR is the Thumrahang. She is the settler of Beltar VDC. She sings cultural songs.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg1
video/x-mpeg2
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-7F78-1
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Singing
Chorus
Unspecified
Bantawa language
Puma language
Subject (ISO639):bap
pum
Type:audio
video

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Citation: Bali Maya Rai (singer); Dhan Kumari Rai (singer); Laxmi Maya Rai (singer); Arjun Rai; Ram Laxmi Rai (singer). 2004-06-08. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_bap iso639_pum

Inferred Metadata

Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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