OLAC Record: The Traditional Songs And Poetry Of Upper Assam – A Multifaceted Linguistic and Ethnographic Documentation of the Tangsa, Tai and Singpho Communities in Margherita, Northeast India

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Title: Dihing Patkai Festival 2011

The Traditional Songs And Poetry Of Upper Assam – A Multifaceted Linguistic and Ethnographic Documentation of the Tangsa, Tai and Singpho Communities in Margherita, Northeast India

Contributor: Meenaxi Barkataki

Contributor (consultant): Lukam Tonglum (Loekyam Cholim is his Cholim name; Lukam is the name used by other Tangsa groups)

Coverage: India

Date: 2011-01-16

Description: Videos and photos taken at the Dihing Patkai Festival by MB on 16th and 17th Jan 2011. The Tipam Pooja scheduled for 10 a.m. happened only around 12 noon after the VIPs arrived. Bhupeshwar Ningda and Gamthoi did the honours. The inaugural ceremony went on till well beyond 1 p.m. We listened till Pradyut Borodoloi spoke and then went to see the rest of the stalls. Besides the houses which were really many, there were lots of food stalls and lots of other stalls selling clothes and other things – it is really a business-mela. Apart from the Tipam pooja (which Bhupeshwar Ningda explained to me on video) and some ceremony that the Ahoms did just after the flag hoisting there were not many rituals that we got to see. The houses were being used for the people from the different communities to stay in. The Ahoms first did a ‘house opening’ first at the gate, then flag hoisting followed by some pooja and then lighting of 101 lamps around a banana trunk. The stress of all the politicians on tribal and non-tribal people living here is perhaps an indication that the government was not going to give the autonomy to the Tirap Tribal Belt as demanded by Lukam and others. They had now watered down their demands to asking for a development council but even that has not happened so far. Later in the evening there was a massive thunderstorm and the whole main pandal was destroyed and lots of people were hurt we heard. We were just lucky to have got back home around 3 p.m. The wind started around 4 and was really fierce around 5. By 5:30 it was all over. But there was no electricity for the rest of the evening and for the coming days. The opening welcome song at the inaugural function was mix of Tai Phake, Singpho, Tangsa, Sema (4 girls each) and 6 Asamiya girls. The ethnic houses were Ahom, Tai Phake, Khamti, Khamyang, Sema, Tangsa, Deori, Rabha, Moran, Sonowal, Adi, Bhojpuri, Nepali,Telegu, tea-tribes etc. Pradyut Bordoloi said the festival was for unity amongst the tribal/non-tribal people living together in this area – a place for reconciliation.

This project contains linguistic, musicalogical, ethnographic and other cultural information about three communities in Upper Assam: Singpho, Tai and Tangsa. The recordings and analyses have been done by Stephen Morey, together with Palash Kumar Nath (Gauhati University), Juergen Schoepf (Phonogrammarchiv, Vienna), Meenaxi Barkataki Ruscheweyh (Goettingen Academy of Sciences), Chaichuen Khamdaengyodtai (Rajabhat University, Chiang Mai), Zeenat Tabassum (Gauhati University), Karabi Mazumder (Gauhati University), Krishna Boro (Gauhati University), Paul Hastie (LaTrobe University). The key aims of the project were • to provide a comprehensive documentation of the varieties of Tangsa language spoken in the Margherita Subdivision of Upper Assam, India, • to provide a comprehensive documentation of the traditional songs, and poetry of three endangered language communities in the Margherita Subdivision: the Tangsa and Singpho (both Tibeto-Burman) and the Tai (Tai-Kadai), including a study of Tai traditional manuscripts, which are highly relevant for language and culture maintenance among the Tai. Within each of these communities there is considerable linguistic and cultural diversity, so all the files have been divided up and named according to this system: Tai SDM01 Phake SDM02 Aiton SDM03 Khamyang SDM04 Ahom SDM05 Khamti Singpho SDM07 Turung SDM08 Numhpuk Hkawng SDM09 Diyun Hkawng SDM10 Tieng Hkawng Tangsa SDM11 Youngkuk SDM12 Cholim SDM13 Kimsing SDM14 Tikhak SDM15 Lochhang SDM16 Ngaimong SDM17 Maitai SDM18 Shechhyv SDM19 Mossang SDM20 Khvlak SDM21 Lakkai SDM22 Lungri SDM23 Hakhun SDM24 Lungkhe SDM25 Ronrang SDM26 Sangte SDM27 Sangwal SDM28 Halang SDM29 Haseng SDM30 Morang SDM31 Moklum

Lukam Tonglum (Loekyam Cholim) is the leader of the Cholim community in Kharang Kong. He came from Burma in the 1950s to join his brother who had already set up in Kharang Kong. He is very knowledgeable about all aspects of Cholim culture.

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Title:		Dihing Patkai Festival 2011
Title:		The Traditional Songs And Poetry Of Upper Assam – A Multifaceted Linguistic and Ethnographic Documentation of the Tangsa, Tai and Singpho Communities in Margherita, Northeast India
Contributor:		Meenaxi Barkataki
Contributor (consultant):		Lukam Tonglum (Loekyam Cholim is his Cholim name; Lukam is the name used by other Tangsa groups)
Coverage:		India
Date:		2011-01-16
Description:		Videos and photos taken at the Dihing Patkai Festival by MB on 16th and 17th Jan 2011. The Tipam Pooja scheduled for 10 a.m. happened only around 12 noon after the VIPs arrived. Bhupeshwar Ningda and Gamthoi did the honours. The inaugural ceremony went on till well beyond 1 p.m. We listened till Pradyut Borodoloi spoke and then went to see the rest of the stalls. Besides the houses which were really many, there were lots of food stalls and lots of other stalls selling clothes and other things – it is really a business-mela. Apart from the Tipam pooja (which Bhupeshwar Ningda explained to me on video) and some ceremony that the Ahoms did just after the flag hoisting there were not many rituals that we got to see. The houses were being used for the people from the different communities to stay in. The Ahoms first did a ‘house opening’ first at the gate, then flag hoisting followed by some pooja and then lighting of 101 lamps around a banana trunk. The stress of all the politicians on tribal and non-tribal people living here is perhaps an indication that the government was not going to give the autonomy to the Tirap Tribal Belt as demanded by Lukam and others. They had now watered down their demands to asking for a development council but even that has not happened so far. Later in the evening there was a massive thunderstorm and the whole main pandal was destroyed and lots of people were hurt we heard. We were just lucky to have got back home around 3 p.m. The wind started around 4 and was really fierce around 5. By 5:30 it was all over. But there was no electricity for the rest of the evening and for the coming days. The opening welcome song at the inaugural function was mix of Tai Phake, Singpho, Tangsa, Sema (4 girls each) and 6 Asamiya girls. The ethnic houses were Ahom, Tai Phake, Khamti, Khamyang, Sema, Tangsa, Deori, Rabha, Moran, Sonowal, Adi, Bhojpuri, Nepali,Telegu, tea-tribes etc. Pradyut Bordoloi said the festival was for unity amongst the tribal/non-tribal people living together in this area – a place for reconciliation.
		This project contains linguistic, musicalogical, ethnographic and other cultural information about three communities in Upper Assam: Singpho, Tai and Tangsa. The recordings and analyses have been done by Stephen Morey, together with Palash Kumar Nath (Gauhati University), Juergen Schoepf (Phonogrammarchiv, Vienna), Meenaxi Barkataki Ruscheweyh (Goettingen Academy of Sciences), Chaichuen Khamdaengyodtai (Rajabhat University, Chiang Mai), Zeenat Tabassum (Gauhati University), Karabi Mazumder (Gauhati University), Krishna Boro (Gauhati University), Paul Hastie (LaTrobe University). The key aims of the project were • to provide a comprehensive documentation of the varieties of Tangsa language spoken in the Margherita Subdivision of Upper Assam, India, • to provide a comprehensive documentation of the traditional songs, and poetry of three endangered language communities in the Margherita Subdivision: the Tangsa and Singpho (both Tibeto-Burman) and the Tai (Tai-Kadai), including a study of Tai traditional manuscripts, which are highly relevant for language and culture maintenance among the Tai. Within each of these communities there is considerable linguistic and cultural diversity, so all the files have been divided up and named according to this system: Tai SDM01 Phake SDM02 Aiton SDM03 Khamyang SDM04 Ahom SDM05 Khamti Singpho SDM07 Turung SDM08 Numhpuk Hkawng SDM09 Diyun Hkawng SDM10 Tieng Hkawng Tangsa SDM11 Youngkuk SDM12 Cholim SDM13 Kimsing SDM14 Tikhak SDM15 Lochhang SDM16 Ngaimong SDM17 Maitai SDM18 Shechhyv SDM19 Mossang SDM20 Khvlak SDM21 Lakkai SDM22 Lungri SDM23 Hakhun SDM24 Lungkhe SDM25 Ronrang SDM26 Sangte SDM27 Sangwal SDM28 Halang SDM29 Haseng SDM30 Morang SDM31 Moklum
		Lukam Tonglum (Loekyam Cholim) is the leader of the Cholim community in Kharang Kong. He came from Burma in the 1950s to join his brother who had already set up in Kharang Kong. He is very knowledgeable about all aspects of Cholim culture.
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Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI1450436
Identifier (URI):		http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI1450436%23
Publisher:		Stephen Morey
Publisher:		Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University
Type:		audio
		video
		image
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI1450436
DateStamp:		2011-11-10
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Citation:		Meenaxi Barkataki; Lukam Tonglum (Loekyam Cholim is his Cholim name; Lukam is the name used by other Tangsa groups) (consultant). 2011-01-16. Stephen Morey.