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Title:		Salt story
		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):		Mohen Ronrang
Coverage:		India
Date:		2011-01-08
Description:		SDM-25-2011-01-08-01-MB-Manmau-Mohen-salt-story.wav SDM-ass-2011-01-08-02-MB-Manmau-Mohen-salt-story.wav How was salt first found? There was an old widow hwo had three sons. She used to cook for the family while the others went out to work. When the food was almost ready she would take some phelgm from her nose and put it in the food and the food would become very tasty. When the sons found out what she was doing they beat the mother and asked her to leave the house. The poor woman went away but wherever she stopped on the way, her tears turned into little salt springs, where she shat one could find a special kind of salt that smells and where she blew her nose there was salt to be found. She finally died on top of a stone near Lajo and there was a big salt lake formed there which exists even today. Sometimes the water there is clear and clean but on other days corresponding to the days when she would have her periods, the water would turn red and murky and would bring misfortune to whoever tried to use it then. There is a special kind of clay called ‘ti-ro-gam’ with which one made huge flat pans called ‘kih’. Three such kih would be used to dry the salt water – the first to heat it, the second to reduce it and the third to really dry it into salt. Furrows ‘chum-tin’ made in the earth and split bamboo ‘wa-long-chum’ were used to transfer the salt from one kih to the next. Groups of men would camp near the salt spring for as long as it took them to make enough salt to last them the whole year. It was usually done in winter months of Jan-March. a.
		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
Format:		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI1450699
Identifier (URI):		http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI1450699%23
Publisher:		Stephen Morey
		Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University
Type:		audio
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI1450699
DateStamp:		2011-11-10
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Citation:		Meenaxi Barkataki; Mohen Ronrang (consultant). 2011-01-08. Stephen Morey.