Kasuang, Mato

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 OH-008-39-1a In this interview, Mato Kasuang shares her knowledge of the Palm – its varieties, their cultivation, the origin of the Palm and comments on the shared future of the Puroik people and the Palm. She also answers questions about life in the past, size and distribution of villages and rearing livestock like pigs, goats, fowl and Mithun. She begins by sharing she had planted a cluster of Palm herself when she was younger. It is generally men’s duty to replant suckers and raise...

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...