Chintan Sheth

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection features interviews with Puroik elders and cultivators from five villages in East Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh: Byale, Surung Kasuang, Mechidu, Mecha and Byaluom. These five villages are situated in two water basins, formed by rivers Kamyang and Katchiye, both tributaries of the Katoie river (or Kameng river) in western Arunachal Pradesh. These recordings document the ethnobotanical knowledge and life histories of elders, and the oral history of the tribe. The oral history of the...

Summary Dangma Kasuang hails from Hanche village, only a few metres away from Byale village, where she has lived since her marriage. She had previously named a variety, Matchichuik, which is one of the rarer varieties and so, in this interview Mansi and Chintan are asking her about Matchichuik. She also describes another variety called Nilau. These two varieties were uncommon among the cultivators in Byale village. Dangma Kasuang shares that Matchichuik was sought because it has a good amount of...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection features interviews with Puroik elders and cultivators from five villages in East Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh: Byale, Surung Kasuang, Mechidu, Mecha and Byaluom. These five villages are situated in two water basins, formed by rivers Kamyang and Katchiye, both tributaries of the Katoie river (or Kameng river) in western Arunachal Pradesh. These recordings document the ethnobotanical knowledge and life histories of elders, and the oral history of the tribe. The oral history of the...

Summary In this interview, Mabing Kasuang shares the words and phrases for Moon, Sun, day, night, stars and clouds, and words related to the Palm among other things in daily life. Her parental village is in Ledo, Rawa village, where a different dialect from that of her husband’s village is spoken. In this recording, she speaks the words in her parental dialect and repeats the words and phrases on request to reveal the correct pronunciation in her dialect. The recording includes words for varieties...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection features interviews with Puroik elders and cultivators from five villages in East Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh: Byale, Surung Kasuang, Mechidu, Mecha and Byaluom. These five villages are situated in two water basins, formed by rivers Kamyang and Katchiye, both tributaries of the Katoie river (or Kameng river) in western Arunachal Pradesh. These recordings document the ethnobotanical knowledge and life histories of elders, and the oral history of the tribe. The oral history of the...

Summary File 1 In this short recording, Padue Kasuang says the names of two rice varieties cultivated in the jhum fields, Langbuk and Rungchi. He says that these two names have been carried from the time these varieties were brought from the sky at the very beginning. File 2 In this recording, Padue Kasuang re-iterates the two names for rice varieties, Langbuk and Rungchi multiple times to help the listeners with correct pronunciation of these Puroik names. He also adds again that these...

Summary In this recording, Padue Kasuang is narrating a few events from the Oral history. Initially, he refers to fire taking refuge in bamboo and a white stone at the time of a fight between water and fire. Then, he recalls an unrelated event, a time when night fell during the day, for about twenty minutes. He remembers that time to be many years ago, when he and his wife had eaten their first meal and were preparing to leave for their farm. He vividly recalls that birds from all over were going...

Summary OH-008-3-6a This word list includes Puroik and Nyishi names for otter, tiger, bear, leopard cat, dhole, barking deer, and red goral. OH-008-3-6b This word list includes Puroik and Nyishi names for Himalayan serow, gliding squirrel, monkey, langur, Masked palm civet, Orange-bellied squirrel, Large Indian civet, hog badger, pangolin, Yellow-throated martin, weasel, pika, house rodent, big jungle rat, small red rat, and White-bellied mouse. OH-008-3-6c This recording begins with the Puroik and...

Scope and Contents The collection features interviews with Puroik elders and cultivators from five villages in East Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh: Byale, Surung Kasuang, Mechidu, Mecha and Byaluom. These five villages are situated in two water basins, formed by rivers Kamyang and Katchiye, both tributaries of the Katoie river (or Kameng river) in western Arunachal Pradesh. These recordings document the ethnobotanical knowledge and life histories of elders, and the oral history of the tribe. The oral history of the...