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Archives at NCBSTata Institute of Fundamental ResearchOH-008-41.OH-008-41-1https://catalogue.archives.ncbs.res.in/repositories/2/archival_objects/24634Kasuang, AbakDhingra, MansiKasuang, PadueAbak Kasuang - Session 01, 15 March 202415 March 20245.0 MinutesPuroik, Arunachali HindiAbak Kasuang is an elderly woman from Byaluom village, over sixty years of age. She raises her Palms and cultivates many crops in her jhum fields. She also raises chicken and pigs in the village, along with her husband. She is a steady presence in village gatherings and communal activities. She lives a few hours uphill from the main settlement in Surung Kasuang and weekly travels downhill to visit the church. Padue Kasuang, aged over forty years, is from Byale village, currently settled in Sawa with his family. He is a Chrisitian leader and pastor, as well as an Assistant Load Carrier (ALC) with the Sawa administration. He has a strong motivation to document the oral history of the Puroik people and preserve it for the future generations. He keeps himself busy farming, maintaining his Palms, and creating handcrafted items for sale in the town, like Kadaak-saak (a cane backpack) and Zak (a bamboo storage vessel). He takes a lot of interest in caring for his Palms and believes they are necessary for food security for the Puroik people. As mentor and research liaison, he guides and helps interpret this work on Puroik oral literature and the Eastern Himalayan sago palm.In this short recording, Abak Kasuang recounts the struggles of her youth, the challenges of Puroik people’s life in the past. She speaks of how people kept making yarn from the plant called Khryag even while walking, on their way to someplace else. They would have to keep making sago. Life in the past, she recalls, was very difficult. She sings two songs, one in praise of Jesus in Nyishi language and the other teaching kids about the sago-making process in Puroik language. The words are, “Pakhyo-adumui haye va, Pakhyo-adufu haye va, Kaiko ta hase hase ro”. It translates to, “Oh non-tribal daughter, oh non-tribal son, this is how we go to the Kaiko to make sago”. (The song can be addressed to Puroik children or other children depending on the audience.) Time-stamped section headings (00:00:00) The difficulty of life in the past. [00:00:46 to 00:01:12 Restricted access. Contact archives@ncbs.res.in] (00:01:39) Christian song. (00:02:40) Background of the speaker. (00:04:12) Puroik song about sago-making.OH-008-41-1_translation In this short recording, Abak Kasuang recounts the struggles of her youth, the challenges of Puroik people’s life in the past. She speaks of how people kept making yarn from the plant called Khryag even while walking, on their way to someplace else. They would have to keep making sago. Life in the past, she recalls, was very difficult. She sings two songs, one in praise of Jesus in Nyishi language and the other teaching kids about the sago-making process in Puroik language. The words are, “Pakhyo-adumui haye va, Pakhyo-adufu haye va, Kaiko ta hase hase ro”. It translates to, “Oh non-tribal daughter, oh non-tribal son, this is how we go to the Kaiko to make sago”. (The song can be addressed to Puroik children or other children depending on the audience.) Time-stamped section headings (00:00:28) The difficulty of life in the past. [00:01:53 to 00:02:53 Restricted access. Contact archives@ncbs.res.in] (00:03:47) Christian song. (00:05:40) Background of the speaker. (00:07:47) Puroik song about sago-making.Access Level 1: Online. See https://archives.ncbs.res.in/accessCopyright may not have been assigned to Archives, National Centre for Biological Sciences. The Archives at NCBS makes no representation that it is the copyright owner in all of its collections. The user must obtain all necessary rights and clearances before use of material and material may only be reproduced for academic and non-commercial use. See https://archives.ncbs.res.in/accessPuroik Oral Literature of Kamyang and Katchiye water basins, East Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh, OH-008