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Title:Gapkhim – Wihu Ritual and Song, 1st January 2017
Contributor (compiler):Gapkhim Mossang
Stephen Morey
Coverage:India
Date Created:2017-01-01
Description:Four recordings in which Mr Gapkhim performs a Wihu ritual and sings the Wihu song. This consists of 1 video file and 3 sound files: nst-mos_20170101_01_WM_O_Gapkhim_WizhuiuzRuimcRuimc nst-mos_20170101_02_WM_O_PreparingRiceBeer nst-mos_20170101_20_SM_JVC_Gapkhim_WihuSongAtMainPost nst-mos_20170101_09_SM_H5_Gapkhim_WihuSongAtMainPost The details of these recordings are as follows: nst-mos_20170101_01_WM_O_Gapkhim_WizhuiuzRuimcRuimc_Duration 7’37”, At the commencement of this recording a prayer (ruimcruimc) is being said at the main post of the house. The prayer continues until the sacrifice of the chicken. Note that in the background one of the neighbours is listening to the Christian Wihu song of Mr. Chung Mawn, recorded in Myanmar. 2.20” The prayer finishes, and the chicken is strangled 3’35” A short prayer, in which Gapkhim sees that the omen for the coming year is good, based on the position of the feet of the chicken. 4’20” The chicken is proclaimed as dead and Gapkhim explains in brief the meaning of the omen He smears the blood of the chicken on the offering food of melon and yam and also on the ceremonial basket. 5’45” Final prayer (The video is timed as 6.08 am, which is probably the finishing time; Wanglung’s phone is a couple of minutes fast so this would have commenced around 5.55am,) nst-mos_20170101_02_WM_O_PreparingRiceBeer_Duration 1’21”, Extracting the rice beer. nst-mos_20170101_20_SM_JVC_Gapkhim_WihuSongAtMainPost_Duration 1’47”, Wihu song at the main post. The ritual sacrifice and ruimcruimc prayer was offered here in the morning just before sunrise. It is not possible to repeat the ruimcruimc out of this context, however, he sang a short Wihu song which was praising the tsungxsanx puic, also recorded as nst-mos_20170101_09_SM_H5_Gapkhim_WihuSongAtMainPost.wav nst-mos_20170101_09_SM_H5_Gapkhim_WihuSongAtMainPost_Duration 2’29”, Wihu song at the main post. The ritual sacrifice and ruimcruimc prayer was offered here in the morning just before sunrise. It is not possible to repeat the ruimcruimc out of this context, however, he sang a short Wihu song which was praising the tsungxsanx puic, also recorded as nst-mos_20170101_20_SM_JVC_Gapkhim_WihuSongAtMainPost
Format:video/mp4
audio/x-wav
Identifier (URI):https://hdl.handle.net/1839/01b51372-a0b1-4330-a77b-f383d36a8a76
Is Part Of:DoBeS archive : Tangsa, Tai, Singpho in North East India
Language:Tase Naga; Tangsa - Moshang variety (general name Mossang)
Language (ISO639):nst
Publisher:The Language Archive, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Tase Naga language
Tangsa - Moshang variety (general name Mossang)
Subject (ISO639):nst
Type (DCMI):MovingImage
Sound

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Citation: Gapkhim Mossang (compiler); Stephen Morey (compiler). 2017-01-01. DoBeS archive : Tangsa, Tai, Singpho in North East India.
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Country: Myanmar
Area: Asia


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